incarceration

incarceration is a 13-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

13 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses

Definitions

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

   "he was held in captivity until he died"

   "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"

   Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment

Synonyms

captivity, immurement, imprisonment

Common word forms

incarcerations

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