incarceration
/ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Latin carcer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin incarcerō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin incarcerātiōbor. English incarceration Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō, equivalent to incarcerate + -ion.
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Dated