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Definition of "incommunicado" []

  • Without the means or right of communicating with others: a prisoner held incommunicado; incommunicado political detainees. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "incommunicado" in a sentence
  • "In Uganda, for example, we have documented long-term incommunicado detention, torture and, in some cases, deaths of alleged treason and terrorism suspects at the hands of the government's Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force."
  • ""The military is detaining people incommunicado, which is illegal, and so it is effectively disappearing people," said Heba Morayef of"
  • "He continued to be held incommunicado, that is without contact with the outside world, including his family and lawyers, until August 2005, from when his wife was allowed to visit him on a monthly basis."