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incarceration |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Incarceration \In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.] 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. --Glanvill. 2. (Med.) a Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. b A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: incarceration n : the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" [syn: {captivity}, {imprisonment}, {immurement}]
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