Humanities
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: August 3, 2023
\in-KAHR-suh-rayt\ verb
What It Means
To incarcerate someone is to put them in prison or, figuratively, to subject them to confinement, as in “people incarcerated in their obsessions.”
// Because the accused man did not present a serious threat to society, many questioned the judge’s order that he remain incarcerated while awaiting trial.
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