incarcerate

Other forms of incarcerate

past tense

incarcerated·

present participle

incarcerating·

third person

incarcerates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about incarcerate

What does incarcerate mean?

incarcerate means "lock up or confine, in or as in a jail".

How many syllables are in incarcerate?

incarcerate has 4 syllables: in-car-ce-rate. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈkɑɹsɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for incarcerate?

Close synonyms include imprison, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is incarcerate a common word?

incarcerate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with incarcerate?

95 words rhyme with incarcerate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.