Incarcerate vs Imprisonment - What's the difference?
incarcerate | imprisonment |
To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
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To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
* Spenser
* Blackstone
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
As a verb incarcerate
is to lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.As a noun imprisonment is
a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.incarcerate
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Verb
(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.
Usage notes
As a Latinate term, somewhat formal, compared to imprison.Synonyms
* imprison * jailDerived terms
* incarcerationExternal links
* * ----imprisonment
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Alternative forms
* emprisonment (obsolete)Noun
- His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings