incarceration

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

1. (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:

     […] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.

2. (surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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