incarceration

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

Definition of incarceration

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, countable, uncountable)The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
    “Perpetrated over time, better walk the narrow line / Never challenge what we say / In the darkness of our mind, never thought we'd be so blind / Let the nightmare get away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build a cage full of rage, inner demons call your name / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain”
    “[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.”
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noun

  1. (US, countable, uncountable)The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
    “Perpetrated over time, better walk the narrow line / Never challenge what we say / In the darkness of our mind, never thought we'd be so blind / Let the nightmare get away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build a cage full of rage, inner demons call your name / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain”
    “[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.”
  2. (countable, dated, uncountable)A strangulation, as in a hernia.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

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