🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

투옥

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tu-ok

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Incarceration/ɪnˌkɑːrsəˈreɪʃn/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 범죄자는 10년형의 투옥을 선고받았다."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of being confined in prison; imprisonment.

    "The judge ordered the long-term incarceration of the convicted felon."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Late Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare 'to imprison', from in- 'in' + carcer 'prison'.

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