to incarcerate
18
8.4
- verb
- /ɪnˈkɑːrsəˌreɪt/
- Formal
:
encarcelar
- The judge decided to incarcerate the defendant for his repeated offenses against the law.
- Incarcerated youth
- Incarcerated juveniles
- Incarcerated offender
You know, when I was incarcerated the last time.
- You know, when I was incarcerated the last time.
- And so he was locked up and incarcerated for a period of time.
- You've got people in jail right for this, people that are getting incarcerated because of these lies.
- Their focus, as you notice, is on incarcerating people, showing off weapons that kill people.
- Black people have been incarcerated, right, and painted as criminals.
- And some of the individuals there have been, you know, incarcerated and now they've come out.
- Don't let people describe you because if they do, they will incarcerate you.
- Well, let's let's say he's incarcerated.
- Inside there with Harvard students, BU students and and people who are incarcerated.
- Now you've been incarcerated twice, once for five days, once for like a few hours.
- There was an attitude of the only way to respond to crime is to incarcerate.
- What do you do all of a sudden while you incarcerated your wife tell you.
- This guy would be have been incarcerated a long time ago, bankrupt, probably dead.
- And obviously being incarcerated volley, it was my big thing to him, you know me.
- All the most of the boys there were their parents were dead, incarcerated or had molested them, these precious little boys.
Examples
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Can't incarcerate someone without charging them with a crime.
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Society can be protected by incarcerating dangerous individuals and through the deterrent effect of threatened punishment.
Academic text (2006) -
I suggest we incarcerate him.
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Please, pull over and wait for the police to incarcerate your passenger.
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And so he was locked up and incarcerated for a period of time.
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We incarcerate them.
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Currently, Russia incarcerates almost one million convicts at any given moment.
Academic text (2002) -
You can't incarcerate me!
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Notably, some states and counties that provide attorneys still have judges who routinely incarcerate noncustodial parents for failure to provide child support.
Academic text (2017) -
Many believe that society should focus on rehabilitation rather than simply incarcerating individuals.
Synonyms
178
4.2
Put someone in prison as a punishment or keep them locked up
169
5.9
To keep someone with the police for questioning
115
5.8
To lock someone in prison or a secure place
108
2.1
To put someone in prison as punishment
27
7.2
Send someone to live for a long time in a hospital, prison, or care home
26
4.3
Send a person to prison as punishment
25
8.5
To put someone back in custody until their next hearing
1
9.9
To lock someone inside a room or building against their will
To put someone in prison as punishment
To put someone in jail
To put someone in jail
Antonyms
How Confined
- Formal
15
4.7
- Formal
18
8.4
300
4.0
- Formal
169
5.9
∞
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
incarcerate = in + carcer + ate
Although 'in-' and '-ate' are recognizable affixes, the root 'carcer' is a Latin combining form not a standalone English word, so learners cannot reliably derive 'to put in prison' from the visible parts.
Etymology
Incarcerate comes from the Latin parts in- 'in' and carcer 'prison'. So it literally means 'put into prison', which is why to incarcerate someone is to put or keep them in jail.