to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison: Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or incarcerated. to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it: be incarcerated in We were incarcerated in that broken elevator for four hours. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Putting people in prison. More @Wikipedia
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