Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- 2noun
Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
- 3noun
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
- 4noun
the state of being imprisoned
"he was held in captivity until he died"
"the imprisonment of captured soldiers"
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