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Antonyms for incarcerated


Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb in-kahr-suh-reyt; adjective in-kahr-ser-it, -suh-reyt
Phonetic Transcription : verb ɪnˈkɑr səˌreɪt; adjective ɪnˈkɑr sər ɪt, -səˌreɪt



Definition of incarcerated

Origin :
  • 1550s, a back-formation from incarceration, or else from Medieval Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare "to imprison" (see incarceration). Related: Incarcerated; incarcerating.
  • verb put in jail, confinement
Example sentences :
  • Fraser was incarcerated in a quiet, very private asylum, and that was all.
  • Extract from : « The Floating Island of Madness » by Jason Kirby
  • It was written while she was incarcerated in the cell of a lonely prison.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of Madame Guyon » by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
  • How to escape from prison was ever the thoughts by day and dreams by night of the incarcerated.
  • Extract from : « Clotelle » by William Wells Brown
  • I related, in a few words, who I was and how I came to be incarcerated.
  • Extract from : « Golden Days for Boys and Girls » by Various
  • He still didn't know why he was incarcerated, or what regulation he had broken.
  • Extract from : « Next Door, Next World » by Robert Donald Locke
  • He was not sent back to the Success, but was incarcerated in the jail at Melbourne.
  • Extract from : « The Land of the Kangaroo » by Thomas Wallace Knox
  • He is the first glimpse of the outside world I have had since I was incarcerated in this asylum.
  • Extract from : « Dear Enemy » by Jean Webster
  • As many as forty persons have been incarcerated in it at one time.
  • Extract from : « Recollections of Old Liverpool » by A Nonagenarian
  • I had been incarcerated more than a year before I could obtain my release.
  • Extract from : « The Pacha of Many Tales » by Frederick Marryat
  • Know you not that only male prisoners are incarcerated in the Beauchamp Tower?
  • Extract from : « In Doublet and Hose » by Lucy Foster Madison

Synonyms for incarcerated

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