Confined vs Incarcerated - What's the difference?
confined | incarcerated |
(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
(incarcerate)
To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
* 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "
To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
As verbs the difference between confined and incarcerated
is that confined is (confine) while incarcerated is (incarcerate).As an adjective confined
is not free to move.confined
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(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
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* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----incarcerated
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(head)incarcerate
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(incarcerat)Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated , but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.