incarceration
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See also: incarcération
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)
- (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:
- […] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.
- (surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
- A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment
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formerly, strangulation, as in hernia
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constriction of the hernial sac
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