incarcerate
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Is incarcerate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (chiefly US, transitive) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.Examples: "Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated, but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights."; "In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population."Synonyms: imprison, jailUStransitive
2. (transitive) To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.transitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete as a participle, archaic as a participial adjective) Incarcerated: jailed, imprisoned, confined, shut in.Examples: "Tane and incarcerat, kepit heir an there"; "Nor is that radiant force in humane kind / Extinguiſht quite, he that did them create / Can thoſe dull ruſty chains of ſleep unbind, / And rear the ſoul unto her ſristin ſtate: / He can them ſo inlarge and elevate / And ſpreaden out, that they can compaſſe all, / When they no longer be incarcerate / In this dark dungeon, this foul fleſhy wall, / Nor be no longer wedg’d in things corporeall: […]"; "[…] Mr. Vanſe, Keeper of the Tolbooth, did give in a Bill, repreſenting, That there being ſo great a number of Priſoners, upon account of Conventicles, and for Criminal Cauſes, and the ſaid Captain being incarcerate, not for a Crime, but for not finding Caution, he was in bona fide not to look upon him as a Perſon that would eſcape: […]"archaicnot-comparableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary