All incarcerated synonyms
in·car·cer·ate
I i adjective incarcerated
- captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- caged — A caged bird or animal is inside a cage.
- detained — Simple past tense and past participle of detain.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- imprisoned — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- iced — of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
- under lock and key — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- gaoled — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
- on ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- bedfast — bedridden
- shut in — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
- under arrest — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
verb incarcerated
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.