| Incarceration 1. (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. 2. (n.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. 3. (n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. Thesaurus Entries 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 |