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Meanings of incarcerate in English

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Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.

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Usage of incarcerate in English
1
It's within our discretion to incarcerate, if necessary, in times of emergency.
Year Zero
2
We ought to incarcerate our children to keep them from being incarcerated.
Hard Cash
3
Unfortunately, sometimes they are also forced to incarcerate people for an indefinite period.'
The eye of the leopard
4
The decision to incarcerate them was taken with that in mind.
Imajica: Complete Edition
5
You don't just incarcerate the person who is getting locked up, he says.
Ebony
6
Who is responsible for the FANATICISM that induces a young female to incarcerate herself?
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal / An Authentic Narrative of...
7
We can't incarcerate your man, or set him free.
The Storyteller
8
In it He arraigned him, saying, Verily, thou didst incarcerate and make Me a prisoner.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace
9
From Bill Moyers: Why would African American and Latino prisoners be cheaper to incarcerate than Whites?
Ebony
10
You would like to get me back in your clutches, incarcerate me again in your dungeon!
Facing the Flag
11
It was the chains of our enslaved ancestors, and the handcuffs that disproportionately incarcerate African-American men today.
Ebony
12
The money spent to incarcerate children could be used much more effectively on humane interventions to help children.
Ebony
13
Although it is not clear whether the Americans' intent is to slaughter or incarcerate them, the Germans resist.
Those who save us
14
At least two school janitors remain incarcerated in connection with the case.
Reuters
15
The royal family was incarcerated in the gloomy prison of the Temple.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
16
Maxwell has been incarcerated since her arrest in New Hampshire early July.
The Guardian
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