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1 prison guard

2 jailer (old)

1 escaped prisoner

1 to go to prison

2 to be imprisoned

1 floating hell

2 slave ships

1 to imprison

1 to escape (from prison)

2 to jump bail

1 warden

1 to release from jail

1 hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive

2 fig. having an uncomfortable time

1 Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells

2 fig. hell

3 hell on earth

1 literary inquisition

2 official persecution of intellectuals for their writing

1 to break out of prison

2 to jailbreak (an iOS device etc)

1 prison

1 jailer (old)

1 a hard legal case to judge

1 Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption

1 imprisonment

1 lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom)

2 fig. to be put behind bars

3 to get jailed

1 jail

2 prison