To imprison or confine; to put in a carcer or jail.
Derived from Latin carcer (prison) with the verb-forming suffix -ate, creating a technical term for imprisonment.
Though rarely used today (we prefer 'incarcerate'), 'carcerate' appears in older legal and literary texts—it's a more direct form that seems almost harsher than the modern version!
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