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incarcerates

incarcerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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Questions about incarcerates

What is incarcerates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Incarcerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of incarcerate.

Words near incarcerates in the dictionary

  1. incapsulations
  2. incar
  3. incarcerable
  4. incarcerate
  5. incarcerated
  6. incarcerates
  7. incarcerating
  8. incarceration
  9. incarcerations
  10. incarcerative
  11. incarcerator

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