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Incarcerate   Listen
verb
Incarcerate  v. t.  (past & past part. incarcerated; pres. part. incarcerating)  
1.
To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
2.
To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in.
Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Incarcerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... go his halter-shank, he dashes into the burning barn." She winked ever so slightly at Farrel. "Thanks to you, Don Mike," she assured him, "father's claws are clipped for one year; thanks to you, again, we now have a nice, quiet place to incarcerate him." ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... leading merchants, the imprisonment of a score of others, and a warning to the rest that the shoemaker should stick to his last, leaving high politics to those born to rule. This misguided effort caused the three Archbishops to arrest Prince Roland, the Emperor's only son, and incarcerate him in Ehrenfels, a strong castle on the Rhine belonging to the Archbishop of Mayence, who was thus made custodian of the young man, and responsible to his brother prelates of Cologne and Treves for the safe-keeping ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

... Whereupon:—"Bless thee, my daughter," said Rustico, "go we then, and put him there, that he leave me henceforth in peace." Which said, he took the girl to one of the beds and taught her the posture in which she must lie in order to incarcerate this spirit accursed of God. The girl, having never before put any devil in hell, felt on this first occasion a twinge of pain: wherefore she said to Rustico:—"Of a surety, my father, he must be a wicked fellow, ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio



Words linked to "Incarcerate" :   gaol, jail, lag, confine, imprison, immure, put behind bars



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