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Incarcerate   /ɪnkˈɑrsərˌeɪt/   Listen
Incarcerate

verb
(past & past part. incarcerated; pres. part. incarcerating)
1.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"






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"Incarcerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... this house a moment afterwards, and as the two men now knew each other slightly, they walked home together, McLean relating humorously how he had spent the evening. "And though Commander Sandys means to incarcerate me in the Tower of London," he said, "he did me a good service the other day, and I feel an interest ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie



Words linked to "Incarcerate" :   detain, law, confine, incarceration, jurisprudence



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