incarcerate
verb [usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they incarcerate | |
| he / she / it incarcerates | |
| past simple incarcerated | |
| past participle incarcerated | |
| -ing form incarcerating |
- incarcerate somebody (in something)
to put somebody in prison or in another place from which they cannot escape 监禁；关押；禁闭 Thousands were incarcerated in labour camps. 成千上万的人被关进了劳改营。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIncarcerate is used with these nouns as the object:- prisoner
Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as incarceration): from medieval Latin incarcerat- ‘imprisoned’, from the verb incarcerare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin carcer ‘prison’.