Incarceration

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  • n. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • n. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • n. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • n.
  • n. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • n. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of incarcerating or imprisoning; imprisonment.
  • n. In surgery, obstinate constriction, as of a hernia, or retention, as of the placenta in childbirth; strangulation, as in hernia.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of being imprisoned
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    confinement   
    Hyponym
    life imprisonment    durance    internment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    imprisonment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    imprisonment    deportation    duress    detention    banishment   
     
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