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- Dictionaryincarcerate/ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪt/
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- 1. imprison or confine: "many are incarcerated for property offences" Similar Opposite
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to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison: Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or incarcerated. to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it: be incarcerated in We were incarcerated in that broken elevator for four hours. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Putting people in prison.
to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison: Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or incarcerated. to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it: be incarcerated in We were incarcerated in that broken elevator for four hours. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Putting people in prison.
The meaning of INCARCERATED is confined in a jail or prison. How to use incarcerated in a sentence.
to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison: Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or incarcerated. to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it: be incarcerated in We were incarcerated in that broken elevator for four hours. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Putting people in prison.
Incarcerate does not have such a noun equivalent in English—incarceration refers to the state of confinement rather than a physical structure—but it comes ultimately from the Latin noun carcer, meaning “prison.”
Use the verb incarcerate when you need to put someone behind bars in a big way, meaning, send them to prison, like those who, after being found guilty of a crime and sentenced, become incarcerated.
to put someone in prison or in another place from which they cannot escape synonym imprison Thousands were incarcerated in labor camps.
If someone is incarcerated, they are being held in a prison or jail. Incarcerated people have been found guilty of a serious crime.
If people are incarcerated, they are kept in a prison or other place. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war. American English : incarcerate / ɪnˈkɑrsəreɪt /
to enclose; constrict closely. adjective. imprisoned. incarcerate. / ɪnˈkɑːsəˌreɪt / verb. tr to confine or imprison. Discover More. Derived Forms. inˈcarcerˌator, noun. inˌcarcerˈation, noun. Discover More. Other Words From. in·car·cer·a·tion [ in-kahr-s, uh, -, rey, -sh, uh, n], noun. in·car·cer·a·tive adjective. in·car·cer·a·tor noun.
