incarcerate

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The Word of the Day for April 4 is:

incarcerate   /in-KAR-suh-rayt/   verb
    *1 : to put in prison
      2 : to subject to confinement

Example sentence:
     After being incarcerated for ten years, the former prisoner 
was ready to enjoy life as a free civilian.

Did you know?
     A criminal sentenced to incarceration may wish his debt to 
society could be canceled, but such a wistful felon might be 
surprised to learn that "incarcerate" and "cancel" are 
related. "Incarcerate" comes from "incarcerare," a Latin verb 
meaning "to imprison." That Latin root comes from "carcer," 
Latin for "prison." Etymologists think that "cancel" probably 
got its start when the spelling of "carcer" was modified 
to "cancer," which means "lattice" in Latin -- an early meaning 
of "cancel" in English was "to mark (a passage) for deletion 
with lines crossed like a lattice." Aside from its literal 
meaning, "incarcerate" can also have a figurative application 
meaning "to subject to confinement," as in "a man who is 
incarcerated in his obsessions."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.