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Incarcerate   Listen
verb
Incarcerate  v. t.  (past & past part. incarcerated; pres. part. incarcerating)  
1.
To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
2.
To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in.
Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Incarcerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember," he says jestingly. "When the ghosts of my ancestors claim me as their victim, and incarcerate me in some fiendish dungeon, I shall remember your words and ...
— The Haunted Chamber - A Novel • "The Duchess"

... taverns, and one hotel (a temperance hotel, where old Brown bashed the proprietor for refusing to supply him gin); one Pepper's Ghost; one Wild Beasts' Show; one Exhibition of the Fattest Woman on the Earth; also in the precincts of one jail, where Mr. Patrick Brown was cruelly incarcerate for wiping the floor with the cold refuser of the gin. "Criffens! Fechars!" said Swipey for a twelvemonth after, stunned by the mere recollection of that home of the glories of the earth. And then he would begin to expatiate for the benefit of young Gourlay—for Swipey, though his name ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... this woman upon her slaves, and that she had caused several to be whipped to death; but I never heard that she was suspected of being deranged, otherwise than by the indulgence of an ungoverned temper, until I heard that her husband was attempting to incarcerate her in the Lunatic Asylum. The citizens of Lexington, believing the charge to be a false one, rose and prevented the accomplishment for a time, until, lulled by the fair promises of his friends, they left his domicil, and in the dead of night she was taken by force, ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... She loves the man, probably, for I think it is not true, as so many writers have stated, that girls are forced to marry whomsoever "the Church" may dictate. Some parents no doubt advise, connive, threaten, and in aggravated cases incarcerate here, as some parents have always done elsewhere, and always will do as long as petticoats continue to be ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4 • Charles Farrar Browne



Words linked to "Incarcerate" :   lag, gaol, jail, put behind bars, remand, jug, confine, detain, jurisprudence, put away, law, immure



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