incarceration

incarceration has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 13.

Definitions

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