💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Incarcerating"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| imprisonverb | (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will. |
| gaolverb | (British) Dated spelling of jail. |
| jailverb | To imprison. |
| put awayverb | (transitive) To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up. |
| remandverb | To send a prisoner back to custody. |
| immureverb | (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. |
| lagverb | To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind. |
| jugverb | (transitive, slang) To put into jail. |
| put behind barsverb | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail |
| detainingnoun | The act by which someone is detained; detention. |
| imprisoningverb | (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will. |
| imprisonmentnoun | A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime. |
| deportingverb | (transitive) To evict, especially from a country. |
| jailingverb | An instance of a person being jailed. |
| parolingverb | (transitive, law) To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law. |
| extraditingverb | (transitive) To remove a person from one state to another by legal process. |
| persecutingverb | To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief. |
| prosecutingverb | (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against. |
| recidivateverb | (intransitive) To relapse into a previous pattern of behavior, especially to commit new offenses after having been punished or sanctioned for earlier ones. |
| torturingverb | An act of torture |
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