incarcerating in English

verb

1

imprison or confine.

many are incarcerated for property offenses

synonyms: imprison, put in prison, send to prison, jail, lock up, put under lock and key, put away, intern, confine, detain, hold, immure, put in chains, hold prisoner, hold captive, put behind bars

verb

• imprison, put in prison, send to prison, jail, lock up, put under lock and key, put away, intern, confine, detain, hold, immure, put in chains, hold prisoner, hold captive, put behind bars
• put behind bars, jail, remand, gaol, lag, imprison, put away, jug, immure

Use "incarcerating" in a sentence

1. His failed attempts in seducing the young woman angered him to the point of incarcerating her.

2. Commuted follows her life as she rebuilds her relationships with family and fights a system that is incarcerating women at an unprecedented rate

3. The junta turned against Argentina’s citizens, whisking away political dissidents and people it suspected of being aligned with leftist, socialist or social justice causes and incarcerating

4. I actually believe the problem that we see and the reason that we have these incredible system errors, where we're incarcerating low-level, nonviolent people and we're releasing high-risk, dangerous people, is that we don't have an objective measure of risk.