Incarcerated
Incarcerated adjective - Taken and held prisoner.
Locked in and incarcerated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Locked in" instead an adjective "Incarcerated".
Nearby Words: incarceration, incarcerating
Locked in
Incarcerated and locked in are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Incarcerated" instead an adjective "Locked in".
Both terms in one sentence
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Conan and the detective kids actually find a "haunted house" where a mother keeps her son locked in the basement to keep him from being incarcerated as his father's murderer until the end of the statute of limtations, even when the guy is guilty and does want to go to jail, to atone for his crime.
Source: Manga / Detective Conan
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Locked in and Incarcerated. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/incarcerated/locked_in
Incarcerated & Locked in. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/incarcerated/locked_in>.
Locked in or Incarcerated. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/incarcerated/locked_in.
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