Associations to the word «Incarceration»

Wiktionary

INCARCERATION, noun. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
INCARCERATION, noun. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
INCARCERATION, noun. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Dictionary definition

INCARCERATION, noun. The state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King