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INCARCERATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they incarcerate ... he / she / it incarcerates
Past simple: incarcerated
Past participle: incarcerated
-ing form: incarcerating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Example:
the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Synonyms:
gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "incarcerate" is one way to...):
confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to incarcerate the prisoners
Derivation:
incarceration (the state of being imprisoned)
