incarcerates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of incarcerate.
The county jail incarcerates inmates awaiting trial as well as those serving short sentences.
Whenever the court incarcerates a parent, social services must arrange care for the children.
Note
The -s form a singular subject calls for: the county incarcerates offenders, the illness incarcerates him at home. The verb is transitive, so an object always follows. The prison sense leans American, while the wider sense of shutting up or hemming in reaches beyond jails. Its partner form incarcerated does triple duty as past tense, past participle and an archaic adjective meaning jailed or shut in.
incarcerates is a form of incarcerate
incarcerate, verb: To lock someone away; to imprison them, especially for breaking the law. Full entry
- Forms
- incarcerateincarcerates he/she/itincarcerating -ing formincarcerated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- incarcerate → incarcerates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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