incarcerate

UK /ɪnˈkɑː.səˌɹeɪt/ US /ɪnˈkɑɹ.səˌɹeɪt/
verb 2adj 1

Definitions

verb

1

To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.

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.

2

To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

adj

1

Incarcerated: jailed, imprisoned, confined, shut in.

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: […]

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