incarceration
See also: incarcération
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From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.
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incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)
- (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:
- […] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.
- (surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
- A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
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act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment
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formerly, strangulation, as in hernia
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constriction of the hernial sac
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