incarceration

incarceration
Synonyms and related words:
beleaguerment, besetment, blockade, blockading, captivity, circumscription, close arrest, confinement, cordoning, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, hard labor, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, inclusion, internment, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, penal servitude, picketing, quarantine, railriding, rock pile, siege, strappado, tar-and-feathering, term of imprisonment, the gantlet, torment, torture

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  • Incarceration — is the detention of a person in jail or prison. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime. Incarceration rates, when measured by the United Nations, are considered distinct and separate from the… …   Wikipedia

  • incarcération — [ ɛ̃karserasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1314; de incarcérer 1 ♦ Méd. Incarcération du placenta : rétention totale du placenta, due à une contraction spasmodique de l utérus. ⇒ enchatonnement. 2 ♦ Action d incarcérer (⇒ emprisonnement); état d une personne… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • incarceration — I noun arrest, bondage, captivity, career, commitment, confinement, confinement by public authority, confinement in a jail, confinement in a penitentiary, confinement under legal process, constraint, custodia, custodianship, custody, detention,… …   Law dictionary

  • Incarceration — In*car cer*a tion, n. [Cf. F. incarc[ e]ration.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Incarceration — (v. lat.), 1) Einsperrung, Gefängniß; 2) Einklemmung eines Theils, wodurch der Durchgang von Stoffen in ihm, od. sein eigener Fortgang verhindert wird; ersteres bes. bei I. eines Darms, es sei durch Intussusception (s.d.), od. bei Brüchen (s.… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Incarceration — Incarceration, lat. deutsch, Einkerkerung; die chirurg. Einklemmung eines organ. Theils …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • incarceration — (n.) early 15c., retention of pus, from M.L. incarcerationem (nom. incarceratio), noun of action from pp. stem of incarcerare to imprison, from in in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + carcer prison, an enclosed space, of uncertain origin …   Etymology dictionary

  • INCARCÉRATION — s. f. T. de Jurispr. Action d incarcérer, ou État de celui qui est incarcéré. Ordonner l incarcération d une personne. Être en état d incarcération. Son incarcération dura dix jours …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • incarcération — (in kar sé ra sion ; en vers, de six syllabes) s. f. 1°   Terme de jurisprudence. Action d incarcérer ; état de celui qui est incarcéré. Être en état d incarcération. 2°   Terme de chirurgie. Synonyme d étranglement, en parlant de la hernie.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • INCARCÉRATION — n. f. T. de Jurisprudence Action d’incarcérer ou état de celui qui est incarcéré. Ordonner l’incarcération d’une personne. Son incarcération dura dix jours …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • incarceration — noun eight years of incarceration Syn: imprisonment, internment, confinement, detention, custody, captivity, restraint; informal time; archaic durance, duress …   Thesaurus of popular words

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