| Definition of 'incarceration' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
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"
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| Definition of 'incarceration' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) incarceration
the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment
2. (noun) incarceration
formerly, strangulation, as in hernia
3. (noun) incarceration
a constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation
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