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单词 incommunicado
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incommunicadoadj.

/ˌɪnkəmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
Forms: Also incomunicado.
Etymology: < Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar to deprive of communication.
Having no means of communication with other persons; isolated; in solitary confinement.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective]
solec1407
separate1600
sequestereda1616
unconjunctive1643
recluse1656
separated1730
removed1766
insulated1781
stray1796
insulate1803
isolated1811
Robinson Crusoe1823
incommunicado1844
shut-out1853
isolate1854
marooned1883
cut-off1894
shut-away1911
shut-off1913
splitsville1964
1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. 255 Now that I was incomunicado—now that all intercourse with my friends was cut off,..my situation became irksome in the extreme.
1911 R. H. Davis Once upon a Time 57 I asked the official concerning Judge Rojas. ‘Oh, yes,’ he said readily. ‘He is still incomunicado.’
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice x. 104 They can hold you forty eight hours incommunicado.
1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 310 This was an island: parts of it were even now incommunicado.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) v. 96 The defendant or victim in such cases as mine ought to be held incommunicado till his well-wishers have concluded their efforts.
1955 Times 4 May 10/6 The Dutch prisoners were arrested at the beginning of 1954 and held incomunicado for a considerable time.
1956 ‘A. Bridge’ Lighthearted Quest 42 Liners' captains, in her experience, kept themselves incommunicado except when on the high seas.
1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose vi. 57 Randall had been practically incommunicado for ten days.
1970 Observer 13 Sept. 4/7 The prisoners will be..detained again under the Terrorism Act by the Special Branch, permitted..to hold any person incommunicado for any length of time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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