| n. | 1. | |
| 1. | The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. | |
| 2. | (Med.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. |
| Noun | 1. | incarceration - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" |