Incarcerate
[ɪn'kɑːsəreɪt] or [ɪn'kɑrsəret]
Definition
(v. t.) To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
(v. t.) To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in.
(a.) Imprisoned.
Typed by Gladys
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Imprison, commit, put in prison.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Immure, imprison
ANT:Liberate, release
Typist: Mason
Definition
v.t. to imprison: to confine.—n. Incarcerā′tion imprisonment: (surg.) obstinate constriction or strangulation.
Edited by Horace
Examples
- Supposed to be incarcerated there, because the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- While there the manager of the telegraph office was arrested for something I never understood, and incarcerated in a military prison about half a mile from the office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Laverne