incarceration
/ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/
incarceration noun: the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Noun
incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)
- 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...2020 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
- A strangulation, as in a hernia.
- A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
incarceration meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
incarceration in Hindi
- incarceration, imprisonment
- क़ैद qaid
incarceration in Urdu
- حبس, قید
incarceration in Bengali
- incarceration, imprisonment
- কয়েদ koẏed
incarceration in Malayalam
- act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment
- ബന്ധനം bandhanaṁ, ജയിൽ വാസം jayil vāsaṁ, ജയിലിലാക്കല് jayililākkal
More languagesFewer languages
- incarceration in Indonesian
- hukuman penjara
- incarceration in Persian
- حبس habs
Examples of incarceration in a sentence
- For decades American politicians have assumed that mass incarceration works, wooing voters with ever-tougher sentencing laws.
- This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media.
- Thus, "I know where I am," Bartleby dead-pans, when offered better food during his final incarceration.
Forms of incarceration
| plural | incarcerations |
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Origin of incarceration
Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō, equivalent to incarcerate + -ion.
Words formed from incarceration
Words that rhyme with incarceration
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about incarceration
- What does incarceration mean?
- Incarceration means the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- What is incarceration in Hindi?
- Incarceration in Hindi is क़ैद (qaid). See Incarceration meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is incarceration?
- Incarceration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce incarceration?
- Incarceration is pronounced /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of incarceration?
- The plural of incarceration is incarcerations.
Words near incarceration in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: incarceration (page history and authors); क़ैद (Hindi) (page history and authors); incarceration (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কয়েদ (Bengali) (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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