incarceration
noun/ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō, equivalent to incarcerate + -ion.
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US 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 remain2020 February 7, “Isolation”, in Derrick Green (lyrics), Quadra, performed by Sepultura:
- […]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:
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A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
- Derived terms
- decarceration, disincarceration, e-carceration, incarcerative, overincarceration, reincarceration
- Related terms
- incarcerate