'Incarceration' definitions:
Definition of 'incarceration'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, incarceration, immurement]
Definition of 'Incarceration'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'incarceration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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