All incarcerate synonyms

verb incarcerate

• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• immure — to enclose within walls.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• intern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
• commit — If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
• railroad — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• cage — A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
• book — A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example.
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• take away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.