| 单词 | incarceration |
| 释义 | incarceration (once / 7439 pages) n Incarceration is the state of being in prison. If you don't fancy incarceration, don't go through with that bank heist. The noun incarceration comes from the Latin word carcer, meaning "jail." There are many different types of incarceration. If you commit a crime and get locked up, that's one form of incarceration. Some people might feel that school is a form of incarceration. Some highly religious people think of the body as an incarceration of the spirit. A great synonym for this word is captivity. WORD FAMILYincarceration: incarcerations+/incarcerate: incarcerated, incarcerates, incarcerating, incarceration USAGE EXAMPLESThe project also seeks to correlate those outcomes with 123 social and economic factors such as government spending, proficiency in reading and rates of incarceration. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Like the film’s title character, the artist, Tyrus Wong, weathered irrevocable separation from his mother, incarceration, isolation and rigorous interrogation — all as a child. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) She was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Scott Bradley to 15 years’ incarceration. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) n the state of being imprisoned his ignominious incarceration in the local jail Syn|Hypo|Hyper captivity, immurement, imprisonment durance imprisonment (especially for a long time) life imprisonmenta sentence of imprisonment until death internmentconfinement during wartime confinement the state of being confined |
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