About The Word Incarceration

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Incarceration

Incarceration Meaning & Definition
Incarceration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Incarceration?

[n] the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Incarceration: captivity | immurement | imprisonment

Related Terms | Find terms related to Incarceration: beleaguerment | besetment | blockade | blockading | captivity | circumscription | close arrest | confinement | cordoning | detention | dismemberment | durance | durance vile | duress | enclosure | envelopment | estrapade | galleys | hard labor | house arrest | immuration | immurement | impalement | imprisonment | inclusion | internment | jailing | keelhauling | martyrdom | penal servitude | picketing | quarantine | railriding | rock pile | siege | strappado | tar-and-feathering | term of imprisonment | the gantlet | torment | torture

See Also | confinement | durance | internment | life imprisonment

Incarceration In Webster's Dictionary

\In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.] 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. --Glanvill. 2. (Med.) (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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