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countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations
(chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. quotations examples
[…] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.
2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 183
(surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia. examples
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. examples