incommunicado

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Held incommunicado, the journalist faces up to three and a half years in prison if convicted.

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  1. adverb Without the means or right of communicating with others: a prisoner held incommunicado; incommunicado political detainees.

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  • Since they had nothing to confess, Monk and Ham were under unearthly strain, expecting each dawn to stand in front of the firing squad The commandant had adopted their two pets, Habeas Corpus and Chemistry, but that was vague consolation They were held incommunicado, as far as the public was concerned. —  098 - The Golden Man
  • David had to stifle a grin, imagining Rol boiling over while the rendezvous vehicle was incommunicado, and then while the ERV came out of Mars's communication shadow. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • But is it acceptable for a state's top public official to simply disappear and be incommunicado, even to his own staff? —  WORLDMag.com
  • Anarchism was made illegal and those suspected of it were arrested without charges, held incommunicado, and murdered in prison. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • I had previously given the principal a tape of me on the news - giving interviews on the courthouse steps - and told her my "civil rights" work would not interfere with my teaching and would (for the most part) take place on weekends and summer - she finally realized that I was in jail incommunicado, about the time My lawyer got through to me, the principal had figured it out anyway. —  legitgov
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  1. Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar, to deny communication : in-, not (from Latin; see in-1) + comunicar, to communicate (from Latin commūnicāre; see communicate).
 

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