单词 | incommunicado |
释义 | incommunicado From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishincommunicadoin‧com‧mu‧ni‧ca‧do /ˌɪnkəmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ $ -doʊ/ adverb, adjectiveTALK TO SB#if you are incommunicado, you are in a place where other people cannot speak to youheld incommunicado at a military prison. He is reportedly being Examples from the Corpusheld incommunicado• When Findlay arrived at the police station the superintendent ordered that he be held incommunicado.• After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health.• The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years.Origin incommunicado (1800-1900) Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar “to make it impossible to communicate” |
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