Vocabulary
Incarcerated
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
imprison or confine
Urdu meaning
مقید، قید میں ہونا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The second senior-most party leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has also been incarcerated for about two years.
- A Senate committee was told on Monday that 17,321 Pakistani nationals are currently incarcerated abroad.
- However, local security sources had on Monday told Radio Pakistan that New Delhi could stage `fake encounters` involving Pakistanis incarcerated in India and label these counterterrorism operations.
- Scores of PTI leaders and activists, including former prime minister Imran Khan, are incarcerated allegedly on concocted charges and human rights violations have become the norm.
- YOU`VE heard of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire investor, financier and convicted paedophile who, if we are to believe the US Department of Justice, killed himself while incarcerated at a maximumsecurity prison.
Synonyms
imprison, put in prison, send to prison, jail, lock up, take into custody
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