incarcerate
pronunciation
How to pronounce incarcerate in British English:
UK [ɪnˈkɑ:səreɪt]
How to pronounce incarcerate in American English:
US [ɪnˈkɑrsəreɪt]
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- Verb:
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Word Origin
- incarcerate (v.)
- 1550s, a back-formation from incarceration, or else from Medieval Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare "to imprison" (see incarceration). Related: Incarcerated; incarcerating.
Example
- 1. But I must keep incarcerate him .
- 2. I 'm gonna incarcerate you .
- 3. He is incarcerate in his own sensibility .
- 4. Many people think that it is wrong to incarcerate criminals in confined quarters for as long as thirty years .
- 5. They say mr breivik 's rambling political doctrine is a shield for lunacy and it would be safer to incarcerate him under psychiatric order .