INCARCERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incarcerate mean? 

• INCARCERATE (verb)
  The verb INCARCERATE has 1 sense:

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

  Familiarity information: INCARCERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCARCERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they incarcerate    ... he / she / it incarcerates   
Past simple: incarcerated   
Past participle: incarcerated   
-ing form: incarcerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Context example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Hypernyms (to "incarcerate" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to incarcerate the prisoners

Derivation:

incarceration (the state of being imprisoned)

 Context examples 

Surgical release of the incarcerated segment will usually correct the deviation of the affected eye.

(Adherence Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Or they quit their job as a marketing director, applied to law school, passed the Bar, and now defend prisoners in the Innocence Project who were incarcerated unfairly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)