Definition of incarcerate
incarcerated
;incarcerating
transitive verb
1 : to put in prison
2 : to subject to confinement
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Examples of incarcerate in a Sentence
the state incarcerated over 1900 people last year
Recent Examples of incarcerate from the Web
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But in America the foreign-born are only a fifth as likely to be incarcerated as the native-born.
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Fifty years ago, the Boston Strangler murdered 13 women before being caught and incarcerated.
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The changes will designate 18 major institutions where inmates with disabilities are incarcerated as ADA compliant, according to the settlement.
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According to prosecutors, the man's DNA sample was linked to the rape after he was incarcerated in Tennesse on theft charges.
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Jurisdictions that violate the policy would lose access to federal grants for law enforcement, terrorism, national security, immigration or incarcerating undocumented immigrants. ‘
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According to a petition filed to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Siamak Namazi has often been held in a solitary cell in a notorious wing of Evin prison in Tehran, where many political prisoners are incarcerated.
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The 85-year-old Arpaio would face up to six months in jail if convicted, though lawyers who have followed the case doubt he would ever be incarcerated.
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She was sentenced to two years probation plus time served after having been incarcerated in 2015, CBS reported.
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Did You Know?
A criminal sentenced to incarceration may wish his or her debt to society could be canceled, but such a wistful felon might be surprised to learn that incarcerate and cancel are related. Incarcerate comes from incarcerare, a Latin verb meaning "to imprison." That Latin root comes from carcer, Latin for prison. Etymologists think that cancel probably got its start when the spelling of carcer was modified to cancer, which means "lattice" in Latin-an early meaning of cancel in English was "to mark (a passage) for deletion with lines crossed like a lattice." Aside from its literal meaning, incarcerate can also have a figurative application meaning "to subject to confinement," as in "people who are incarcerated in their obsessions."
Origin and Etymology of incarcerate
Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare, from in- + carcer prison
INCARCERATE Defined for English Language Learners
incarcerate
playDefinition of incarcerate for English Language Learners
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: to put (someone) in prison
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Origin and Etymology of incarcerate
Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare, from in- in + carcer prison
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