incarceration
下獄,監禁,幽閉
in·car·cer·a·tion /ɪnˌkɑrsəˈreʃən/ 名詞
箝閉
In·car·cer·a·tion n.
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
2. Med. (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
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incarceration
n : the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity
until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
"his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he
practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle
dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, immurement]