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incarcerate (verb) – 1. To put in a prison or jail.
2. To shut in; confine.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : A criminal sentenced to incarceration may wish their debt to society could be canceled; such a wistful felon might be surprised to learn that incarcerate and cancel are related. Incarcerate comes from incarcerare, a Latin verb meaning “to imprison.” That Latin root comes from carcer, meaning “prison.” Etymologists think that cancel probably got its start when the spelling of carcer was modified to cancer, which means “lattice” in Latin—an early meaning of cancel in English was “to mark (a passage) for deletion with lines crossed like a lattice.” Aside from its literal meaning, incarcerate has a figurative application meaning “to subject to confinement,” as in “people incarcerated in their obsessions.”
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