incarcerate

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If the zionist project, to create a racially pure Jewish state in Palestine, is to succeed then it has to use brutality and murder to expel, incarcerate, and then disperse (or kill) the original Arab inhabitants.

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  1. transitive verb To put into jail.
  2. transitive verb To shut in; confine.

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  • But the new video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" is almost as good, if less incarcerate-y. preview of last month - is a perfectly poppy slice of Weezer, but the video is like a Battle of the Viral Video All Stars. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Why should the taxpayer be required to pay to arrest, incarcerate, feed, clothe, & house people because they use marijuana? —  legitgov
  • What can we learn from Luzerne County's incarcerate-kids-for-money scandal? by Mike Newall
  • While in the land of the free and the brave, similar but far milder activity in the Twin Cities are having people arrested and attempting to incarcerate some for put away for up to 7 years under anti-terrorism laws made under the Bush / Cheney administration and executed by the combined forces of State and Federal Security systems, the new Stazi. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • We incarcerate a greater number and percentage of people then any other country.
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  1. Medieval Latin incarcerāre, incarcerāt- : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin carcer, prison.

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  1. from Middle Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare (later ult. English incarcer, q. v.), imprison, from Latin in, in, + career, a prison: see carcerate.
 

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/ɪnˈkɑrsəreɪt/
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