Found 2 items, similar to INCARCERATION.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: incarceration incarceration n : the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon” [syn: captivity, imprisonment, immurement]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Incarceration Incarceration \In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. [1913 Webster]