Carceral

//ˈkɑːsəɹəl//

Synonyms for "carceral" (2 found)

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Translations

22 translations across 19 languages.

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Arabic

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  • سِجْنِيّ adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Belarusian

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  • астро́жны adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)
  • турэ́мны adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)
  • цямні́чны adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Bulgarian

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  • затво́рнически adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Catalan

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  • carcerari adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 監獄的 /监狱的 adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Czech

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  • vězeňský adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Danish

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  • fængsels adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Estonian

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  • vanglalik adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Finnish

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  • vankila adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

French

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  • carcéral adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

German

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  • Gefängnis adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Hungarian

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  • börtön adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Ido

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  • karcerala adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Latin

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  • carcerālis adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Polish

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  • więzienny adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Russian

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  • тюре́мный adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Slovak

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  • väzenský adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Spanish

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  • carcelario adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Ukrainian

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  • в'язни́чний adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)
  • тюре́мний adj (of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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Abolish the carceral state.

Source: tatoeba (9418592)

[O]n his showing signs of penitence, through favour they were contented that he should be released from his carceral endurance, in case he would put in sufficient surety in the king's chancery, and swear that he would never hold or favour any such opinions hereafter. And so, taking an oath of him, the archbishop committed him to the custody of the bishop of Worcester, to whom power and authority were permitted to release him, upon the conditions aforesaid.

Source: wiktionary

This moon-calf of the imagination binds your reason, sir, in carceral chains.

Source: wiktionary

For [Michel] Foucault makes no bones about it: we live – as direct heirs to the impulses and institutions first manifested in the high tide of rising of bourgeois society – under a ‘universal reign of the normative’ dominated by agents of normalcy and surveillance: the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social-worker-judge. And such a social world is plainly ‘a carceral network’ in ‘compact or disseminated forms’. […] The ‘carceral system’, therefore, extends ‘well beyond legal imprisonment’; prison is at bottom just its ‘pure form’ within a continuum of disciplinary apparatuses and ‘regional’ institutions.

Source: wiktionary

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