Incarceration

Noun

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

Related terms

 * incarcerate

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Czech: věznění


 * Finnish:
 * Malayalam: ബന്ധനം, ജയില്‍ വാസം, ജയിലിലാക്കല്‍


 * Czech: zauzlení


 * Finnish: kurouma