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11 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
originThe adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1575; borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātus, perfect passive participle of incarcerō (“to imprison”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin in- (“in”) + carcer (“a prison”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- certainer 11
- interrace 11
- tarriance 11
- accrete 11