incarceration
noun
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plural incarcerations
Definition of incarceration
: confinement in a jail or prison : the act of imprisoning someone or the state of being imprisoned
Despite the drop in crime in past decades, rates of arrest and incarceration in New York City have not gone down.— Robin Steinberg To this day, the Supreme Court has not overruled its infamous Korematsu opinion of 1944, which validated our mass incarceration in deference to national security.— George Takei
Synonyms for incarceration
Synonyms
captivity, confinement, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, internment, prison
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incarceration
noun
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Medical Definition of incarceration
1
: a confining or state of being confined
2
: abnormal retention or confinement of a body part
specifically
: a constriction of the neck of a hernial sac so that the hernial contents become irreducible
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