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decarcerates

decarcerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decarcerate.

Meaning of decarcerate

Verb

decarcerate (third-person singular simple present decarcerates, present participle decarcerating, simple past and past participle decarcerated)

  1. To implement a policy of decarceration; to reduce prison populations.
    • Refusing to decarcerate and now increasing spending on policing that will drive the shuttling of even more Americans into jails and prisons is especially perverse given the recent attention paid to the worsening conditions of confinement and the mistreatment of the incarcerated.2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate

Questions about decarcerates

What is decarcerates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Decarcerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decarcerate.

Words near decarcerates in the dictionary

  1. decarburizes
  2. decarburizing
  3. decarceral
  4. decarcerate
  5. decarcerated
  6. decarcerates
  7. decarcerating
  8. decarceration
  9. decarcerations
  10. decarch
  11. decarchies

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