incarcerate
verb /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪt/
/ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪt/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they incarcerate | /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪt/ /ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪt/ |
| he / she / it incarcerates | /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪts/ /ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪts/ |
| past simple incarcerated | /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle incarcerated | /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form incarcerating | /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪtɪŋ/ /ɪnˈkɑːrsəreɪtɪŋ/ |
- incarcerate somebody (in something) to put somebody in prison or in another place from which they cannot escape synonym imprison
- Thousands were incarcerated in labour camps.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIncarcerate is used with these nouns as the object:- prisoner
Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as incarceration): from medieval Latin incarcerat- ‘imprisoned’, from the verb incarcerare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin carcer ‘prison’.