incarceration

Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

1. (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
   • 2020 February 7, “Isolation”, in Derrick Green (lyrics), Quadra, performed by Sepultura:

     Perpetrated over time, better walk the narrow line / Never challenge what we say / In the darkness of our mind, never thought we'd be so blind / Let the nightmare get away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build a cage full of rage, inner demons call your name / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain

   • 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.

2. (surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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