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incarceration 音標拼音: [ɪnk ,ɑrsɚ'eʃən] n. 下獄,監禁,幽閉 下獄,監禁,幽閉 incarceration n 1: 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" [ synonym: { captivity}, { imprisonment}, { incarceration}, { immurement}] 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 sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. [ 1913 Webster] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " incarceration": 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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