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encarcerate

encarcerate is the obsolete spelling of incarcerate.

Meaning of incarcerate

Verb

incarcerate (third-person singular simple present incarcerates, present participle incarcerating, simple past and past participle incarcerated)

  1. (US, transitive) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
    • Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated, but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022, retrieved 24 Sep 2013
    Synonyms:
    imprison, jail
  2. (transitive) To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

See all 3 meanings of incarcerate

Forms of encarcerate

third-person singular presentencarcerates
present participleencarcerating
past participleencarcerated
pastencarcerated

Questions about encarcerate

What is encarcerate the obsolete spelling of?
Encarcerate is the obsolete spelling of incarcerate.

Words near encarcerate in the dictionary

  1. encaptiving
  2. encapture
  3. encaptured
  4. encaptures
  5. encapturing
  6. encarcerate
  7. encarcerated
  8. encarcerates
  9. encarcerating
  10. Encarnacion
  11. Encarnacions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encarcerate (page history and authors); incarcerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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