incarceration

Signification (Anglais)

1. (US, countable, uncountable) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
2. (countable, dated, uncountable) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
3. (countable, uncountable) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Concepts

incarcération

emprisonnement

détention

enchatonnement

Emprisonnement en droit français

Enfouissement vivant

captivité

emprisonnement en droit français

internement

séquestration

Synonymes

imprisonment

confinement

immurement

captivity

custody

jail

durance

duress

restraint

strangulated hernia

apprehension

depressed feeling

bondage

capture

commitment

gaol

house arrest

isolation

limbo

Traductions

encarcelamiento

incarcerazione

encarcelación

Einkerkerung

encarceramento

empresonament

detenzione

carcerazione

السجن

prisión

Einsperrung

Einklemmung

Inkarzeration

φυλάκιση

encarcerament

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.