incarceration /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/ noun3 •The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson. — 2020 •A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. •(old-fashioned) A strangulation, as in a hernia. formsincarcerations