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Answer for the clue "Put behind bars ", 11 letters:
incarcerate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, a back-formation from incarceration , or else from Medieval Latin incarceratus , past participle of incarcerare "to imprison" (see incarceration ). Related: Incarcerated ; incarcerating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law. 2 To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
incarcerate \in*car"cer*ate\, incarcerated \in*car"cer*at*ed\, a. Imprisoned. --Dr. H. More.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Carter spent 19 years incarcerated in New Jersey on murder charges. ▪ He was incarcerated for 240 days. ▪ There are too many people on death row who are innocent of the crimes for which they are incarcerated. EXAMPLES ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison , lag , immure , put behind bars , jail , jug , gaol , put away , remand ]
Usage examples of incarcerate.
Twenty-one of the thirty-two arrestees were currently incarcerated, and the remaining ten were too young.
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The NCAVC collects and analyzes violent crime data and provides assistance to law enforcement agencies in their attempts to identify, locate, apprehend, prosecute, and incarcerate the persons responsible for these and other violent crimes and to develop new programs for the prevention of violent crime victimization.
Extensive research by the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI academy and in-depth interviews with incarcerated felons who have committed such crimes have provided a vast body of knowledge of common elements, that link crime scene dynamics to specific criminal personality patterns.
Wellington Mape, was apprehended by the police some weeks after Lem had been incarcerated in the state penitentiary.
And for the next two centuries, rather than being murdered when a new sultan ascended the throne, possible claimants were incarcerated, widi deaf-mutes for servants and barren odalisques for companionship.
Ronan was incarcerated did not reappear even after Tikka departed and the city settled, he simply swam out of it.
Some hours later, as he was about to leave, he refused to pardon Martina Laborde, despite the repeated pleas of the Vicereine, because he thought it would set a bad precedent for the many people incarcerated for lesser crimes whom he had found in other prisons.
Even though authorities had arrested, examined, and incarcerated the accused witches, the suffering of the afflicted continued.
Although the interviews were conducted with murderers already convicted and incarcerated, we believe that our observations provide insights for interviewing suspects during the process of apprehending a killer.
Kept under house arrest from March 12 until May 28, during which time the Gestapo contrived to prevent him from getting any sleep by the most petty devices, he was then taken to Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, where he was incarcerated in a tiny room on the fifth floor for the next seventeen months.
In this part of the State--though far removed from each other--were the prisons of Andersonville, Savannah, Millen and Blackshear, in which we were incarcerated one after the other.
I had proved to be obstreperous, so my model-of-integrity cousin had expediently had me incarcerated while he made other arrangements.
We can pick up the cudgels again once the prankster is unmasked and after the murderer has been exposed and incarcerated.
Here is my beloved Liras-ven safe and sound, but poor Rosil is still incarcerated.