incarceration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=car=cer=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

incarceration, n. [Cf. F. incarcération.].

•  The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.  Glanvill.  [1913 Webster]
•  Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

incarceration

beleaguerment, besetment, blockade, blockading, captivity, circumscription, close arrest, confinement, cordoning, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, hard labor, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, inclusion, internment, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, penal servitude, picketing, quarantine, railriding, rock pile, siege, strappado, tar-and-feathering, term of imprisonment, the gantlet, torment, torture

ROGET THESAURUS

incarceration

Restraint

N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.