be under house arrestto be kept as a prisoner by a government, staying inside your house rather than in a prison 被软禁(在家)be under house arrest• He, he was under house arrest.• The editor of the party newspaper is under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.• We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
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