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to incarcerate
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to confine someone in prison or a similar facility due to legal reasons or as a form of punishment
Transitive: to incarcerate a convict
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
incarcerate
3rd person singular
incarcerates
Present participle
incarcerating
Past simple
incarcerated
Past participle
incarcerated
Examples
After the trial, he was promptly incarcerated in a high-security prison.
Lexical Tree
incarceration
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