Usually means: Imprisoning someone as legal punishment.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. incarcerating: Merriam-Webster
  2. incarcerating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. incarcerating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Incarcerating, incarcerating: Wordnik
  5. incarcerating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. incarcerating: Wiktionary
  7. Incarcerating, incarcerating: Dictionary.com
  8. incarcerating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Incarcerating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Incarcerating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. incarcerating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. incarcerating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. incarcerating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. incarcerating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incarcerating: Medical dictionary

(Note: See incarcerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (incarcerate)

verb:  (chiefly US) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
verb:  To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
adjective:  (archaic) Incarcerated.
▸ Also see incarcerate


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