Incarcerate

Definition: Incarcerate

Incarcerate

Verb

1. Lock up in jail.

Synonyms: Incarcerate

Synonyms: gaol (v), immure (v), imprison (v), jail (v), jug (v), lag (v), put away (v), put behind bars (v), remand (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restraint	Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incarcerate

English words defined with "incarcerate": Incarcerated, Incarcerating. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Building Violence: How America's Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence (reference) Race to Incarcerate (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Ireland	The authorities continued to arrest and incarcerate at Portlaoise prison persons involved in paramilitary activity. (references)
	Iceland	The Government has argued that such separation is not practical since the need to incarcerate a juvenile occurs so infrequently. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Incarcerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incarcerate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "incarcerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		burgos (immure, imprison, quod, restrain, send up). (various references)

Arabic		‏حصر (enclose, incarceration, inclose, intercept, limitation, pin, pocket, restrict, restriction, straiten, trap), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw). (various references)

Bulgarian		затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off). (various references)

Chinese		禁闭 (Confinement, Incarcerated, Incarcerating). (various references)

Czech		uvìznit (confine, gaol, immure, imprison, jail). (various references)

Farsi		حبس کردن (Grate, Jail, Mew), زندانی کردن , درزندان نهادن . (various references)

French		incarcérer. (various references)

German		einkerkern (dungeon, gaol, immure, imprison, to dungeon, to imprison, to incarcerate). (various references)

Greek		φυλακίζω (cage, commit to prison, confine, coop up, gaol, immure, imprison, intern, jail). (various references)

Hebrew		לשים במעצר (immure), לכלוא (corral, immure, imprison, jail, lock up, put away, shut in). (various references)

Hungarian		bezár (close up, coop, encompass, immure, lock, lock on, lock up, shut, shut in, shut up, to bolt in, to box in, to bung, to bung up, to cloister, to close, to close up, to enclose, to encompass, to fold up, to immure, to incarcerate, to latch, to mew, to pin, to shut down, to shut in), bebörtönöz (imprison, prison, quod, to cage, to confine, to gaol, to imprison, to incarcerate, to put in prison, to quad, to take prisoner). (various references)

Indonesian		mengandam (fasten, lock up, tie). (various references)

Italian		incarcerare (gaol, imprison, jail). (various references)

Manx		pryssooney (imprison), pryssoonaghey (confine, detain, gaol, imprison), cur ayns pryssoon (gaol, imprison, intern, jail). (various references)

Pig Latin		incarcerateay

Portuguese		incapacidade jurídica (incapable), meter na cadeia (jug, quod, shop), encarcerar (gaol, imprison, jail, mew, mure, prison breaking, restrain). (various references)

Romanian		întemniţa (gaol, hold, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, lock up, pound, prison, secure), încarcera. (various references)

Russian		заключать в тюрьму (commit to prison, imprison, mew up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zatvoriti (cloister, close, close down, closeout, coop, impound, lock into, occlude, put into, shut down, shut in, shut off), utamničiti, uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, immure, imprison, nab, pick up, pinch, pull in, quod, run in). (various references)

Spanish		encarcelar (confine, gaol, immure, imprison, jail, lock up, prison, put away, quod, send down). (various references)

Swedish		fängsla (arrest, attract, captivate, enchain, engross, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, fetter, grip, gyve, imprison, intrigue, shackle). (various references)

Thai		ขังคุก (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), kapatmak (ante up, buy up, cap, clear, close, close down, close up, cloud, cover, enclose, furl, impound, inclose, intern, interrupt, liquidate, obturate, occlude, put up, seal, seal off, shut, shut down, shut off, shut to, shut up, switch off, wall), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, imprison, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up). (various references)

Ukranian		ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, immure, imprison, jail, pound, prison, quod). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incarcerate": incarcerated, incarcerates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incarcerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incancerate, incarcarate, incarcinate, incarerate, incarserate, inkarcerate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incarcerate" (pronounced i'nkÄ"rserā't)
4	-s er ā' t	commiserate, eviscerate, lacerate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-i-n-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: cercariae, certainer, reactance, tarriance.
	-3 letters: acentric, acierate, carcanet, carinate, centiare, cercaria, cetacean, craniate, creatine, increate, iterance, reaccent, recanter, recreant, retainer.
	-4 letters: acarine, accrete, acerate, anticar, arenite, carinae, catenae, cateran, caterer, centare, centric, ceratin, certain, cirrate, creatin, crenate, eccrine, enteric, enticer, erratic, narrate, reciter, recrate, reenact, reinter, rentier, retinae, retrace, retrain, tacrine, taeniae, tearier, terrace, terrain, terrane, terrine, trainee, trainer.
	-5 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acinar, aerate, aerier, antiar, arcane, arctic, arnica, arrant, artier, cancer, canter, cantic, carate, careen, career, carina, carnet, carnie, carter, catena, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerite, cetane, crania, crater, create, cretic, cretin, earner, ecarte, enatic, entera, entice, entire, errant, errata, irater, nearer, neater, nectar, racier, ranter, ratine, recane, recant, recent, recite, reearn, renter, retain, retear, retina, retine, retire, ricrac, taenia, tanrec, tearer, tenace, teniae, tenrec, terrae, tierce, tracer, trance, triene.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-i-n-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: incarcerated, incarcerates.
	+2 letters: recalcitrance.
	+3 letters: corynebacteria, reaccelerating, recalcitrances.
	+4 letters: corynebacterial, reaccreditation, recalcitrancies.
	+5 letters: archconservative, reaccreditations.
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