Incarceration

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“Perpetrated over time, better walk⟳ the narrow line / Never challenge⟳ what we say⟳ / In the darkness of our mind⟳, never thought we'd be so blind / Let⟳ the nightmare get⟳ away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build⟳ a cage full of rage, inner demons call⟳ your name⟳ / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain⟳”

“[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.”

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