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captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurementnoun
the state of being imprisoned
«he was held in captivity until he died»; «the imprisonment of captured soldiers»; «his ignominious incarceration in the local jail»; «he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon»
Synonyms:
incarceration, internment, captivity, immurement, imprisonment, enslavement
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Jackson Lee:
First of all, I want to say that we’re not letting out criminals, we’re responding to mass incarceration, but we’re not letting out criminals. We’re letting out people who have the opportunity to go through programs, be counseled.
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Ana Bermudez:
This just gives us more opportunities to not lose young people to incarceration, to the streets and to be able to rechannel them and tap into their potential more effectively.
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Anthony Kennedy:
This idea of total incarceration just isn’t working and it’s not humane, solitary confinement literally drives men mad.
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Alvin Bragg:
We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I’ve had a knife to my neck, I’ve had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most.
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Pete Buttigieg:
I would not have said even five years ago what I believe now, which is that incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.
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incarcerate, incarcerated, incarcerating
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188 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪnkˌɑːsəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], [ ɪnkˌɑːsəɹˈeɪʃən], [ ɪ_n_k_ˌɑː_s_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]
Related words: prisons, jails, prison population, prison reform, prison sentence length, prison sentence, prison break, incarceration rate
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n.
• arrest (noun)
- preventive custodies,
- re-straining,
- re straining,
- gloms,
- pull ins,
- restrainings,
- sequesterings,
- protective custodies,
- pick ups.
• captivity (noun)
- subjections,
- vassalages.
• confinement (noun)
- constrainments,
- de-limitations,
- de limitations,
- boundings,
- immurations,
- de-limitation,
- de limitation.
• detention (noun)
- time the river,
- keeping ins,
- de lays,
- holding pens,
- de lay,
- time river,
- holding backs,
- immurements,
- de-lays,
- with holding,
- with-holding,
- with holdings,
- arrestations,
- time up river,
- with-holdings,
- de-lay.
• imprisonment (noun)
- restraint.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- glom,
- gaff,
- delimitations,
- withholdings,
- immuration,
- remand,
- time up the river,
- durance,
- internments,
- custody,
- vassalage,
- keeping in,
- delimitation,
- detention,
- nick,
- remands,
- thralldom,
- duress,
- run in,
- violence,
- impoundments,
- constrainment,
- committal,
- impoundment,
- jailings,
- durances,
- quarantine,
- subjection,
- captivity,
- protective custody,
- preventive custody,
- falls,
- Arrestation,
- thraldom,
- internment,
- serfdom,
- committals,
- pick up,
- confinement,
- gaffs,
- mitt,
- holding pen,
- immurement,
- MITTS,
- imprisonment.
• punishment (noun)
- affliction,
- judgment,
- crucifixion,
- sentence,
- execution,
- verdict,
- reprisal,
- price,
- penalty,
- payment,
- punishment,
- retribution,
- chastisement,
- distress,
- correction,
- burden,
- revenge,
- fine,
- agony,
- discipline,
- persecution,
- anguish,
- torture,
- castigation,
- forfeiture.
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- arrest.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- handicap,
- Detainment,
- Keelhauling,
- house arrest,
- envelopment,
- childbirth,
- delay,
- mulct,
- Picketing,
- Cashiering,
- rack,
- incarcerate,
- beating,
- siege,
- close arrest,
- time,
- seizure,
- hanging,
- servitude,
- inclusion,
- excommunication,
- impalement,
- jail,
- gantlet,
- caning,
- drawing and quartering,
- slavery,
- martyrdom,
- commitment,
- railriding,
- exile,
- locking up,
- rock pile,
- jailing,
- cordoning,
- penance,
- bondage,
- enclosure,
- justice,
- strappado,
- whipping,
- circumscription,
- amercement,
- Estrapade,
- law,
- electrocution,
- constraint,
- Birching,
- charge,
- term,
- hard labor,
- torment,
- apprehension,
- durance vile,
- Mancipation,
- entombment,
- coarctation,
- flogging,
- spanking,
- enslavement,
- solitary confinement,
- Scourging,
- blockading,
- dismemberment,
- banishment,
- blockade,
- just deserts,
- Caging,
- gauntlet,
- penal servitude,
- prison,
- Detainer,
- Sentencing,
- beleaguerment,
- Besetment,
- delivery,
- lashing,
- Paddling,
- police,
- forfeit,
- Galleys,
- limbo.
How to use «Incarceration» in context?
First of all, incarceration rates have skyrocketed in the United States in the last several decades. Per capita, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. This has serious effects not just on the individuals who are incarcerated, but also on their families and communities.
Incarceration can have a range of effects on an individual. It can Ruin their life. It can ruin their personality. It can ruin their dreams. It can ruin their hope. It can ruin their future.
But it can also help to Take Away their Sin. It can help to Take Away their Anger.
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Proper noun, singular
imprisonment.
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Noun, singular or mass
imprisonment.
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Proper noun, singular
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Noun, singular or mass
apprehension, captivity, committal, hospitalization, penitentiary, placement, seclusion, Reclusion, Sentencing, Institutes.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Proper noun, singular
detention, prison, Incarcerated.
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Noun, singular or mass
arrest, detention, gaol, internment, jail, prison, sentence, Detainment, Institutionalization, jailing.
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Proper noun, singular
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Nearby words
- incarceratedding
- incarcerateds
- incarcerates
- Incarcerating
- incarceratings
- Incarceration
- (is that) understood?
- (it’s) all right for someone
- (it’s) my pleasure
- -in suspense; panse
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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-kahr-suh—rey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˌkɑr səˈreɪ ʃən |
- captivity
- confinement
- restraint
Définition of incarceration
Origin :
- early 15c., «retention of pus,» from Medieval Latin incarcerationem (nominative incarceratio), noun of action from past participle stem of incarcerare «to imprison,» from in- «in» (see in- (2)) + carcer «prison, an enclosed space,» from Proto-Italic *kar-kr(o)-, of uncertain origin.
- It seems best to connect carcer with other IE words for ‘circle, round object’, such as Latin. curvus, Gr. κιρκος ‘ring’, OIc. hringr, although not all of these have a good IE etymology. The reduplication in Latin carcer could be iconic; thus, the original meaning would have been ‘enclosure’. [de Vaan]
- noun imprisonment
Example sentences :
- Thady had borne his incarceration and distress with the greatest courage.
- Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope
- But this, this was an incarceration no supplication could end, a doom not to be stayed.
- Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
- I got into prison; I mean, I suffered the incarceration of freedom.
- Extract from : « The Cause of it All » by Leo Tolstoy
- “Lead him,” says he, “to prison,” that is—to the incarceration of free life.
- Extract from : « The Cause of it All » by Leo Tolstoy
- Tell the girls to drop in occasionally and see me in my incarceration.
- Extract from : « When Patty Went to College » by Jean Webster
- «At least there is as little form about my incarceration as about my poor duel,» said Count Victor.
- Extract from : « Doom Castle » by Neil Munro
- Incarceration is merely a remnant and substitute of servitude.
- Extract from : « Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The protection of society is secured only during the period of incarceration.
- Extract from : « A Plea for the Criminal » by James Leslie Allan Kayll
- Not exactly; I have heard little of it beyond the fact of his incarceration.
- Extract from : « Willy Reilly » by William Carleton
- As it is, she is inevitably down in the list for a week’s or a month’s incarceration.’
- Extract from : « Vittoria, Complete » by George Meredith
Antonyms for incarceration
- freedom
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bondage, captivity, confinement, detention, imprisonment, internment, porridge (slang) restraint
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
incarcerate
( incarcerates 3rd person present) ( incarcerating present participle) ( incarcerated past tense & past participle ) If people are incarcerated, they are kept in a prison or other place.
FORMAL verb
(=imprison)
They were incarcerated for the duration of the war… be V-ed
It can cost $40,000 to $50,000 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year. V n
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incarceration n-uncount
(=imprisonment)
…her mother’s incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.
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