incarceration

See also: incarcération

English

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

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

act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment

Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) (bantarkutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: azadlıqdan məhrumetmə
Catalan: encarcerament
Chinese:
Mandarin: 下獄／下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 監禁／监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), (limited term) 有期徒刑 (zh) (yǒuqí túxíng)
Czech: věznění
Finnish: vangitseminen (fi)
French: incarcération (fr) f
German: Einkerkerung f
Hebrew: מַאֲסָר (he) m (ma'asár)
Indonesian: hukuman penjara (id)
Italian: incarcerazione (it)
Japanese: 投獄 (ja) (とうごく, tōgoku)
Malayalam: ബന്ധനം (ml) (bandhanaṁ), ജയിൽ വാസം (jayil vāsaṁ), ജയിലിലാക്കല് (jayililākkal)
Polish: inkarceracja (pl) f, pozbawienie wolności (pl) n
Portuguese: encarceramento (pt) m
Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n (lišénije svobódy), заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) (в тюрьму)
Spanish: encarcelación (es) f, encarcelamiento (es) m
Ukrainian: ув'язнення n (uvʺjaznennja), позба́влення во́лі n (pozbávlennja vóli)

formerly, strangulation, as in hernia

constriction of the hernial sac

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