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incommunicado

[in-kuh-myoo-ni-kah-doh] Origin

in·com·mu·ni·ca·do

[in-kuh-myoo-ni-kah-doh]
adjective
(especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; < Spanish incomunicado. See in-3, communicate
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Incommunicado has a plethora of syllables.
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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
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incommunicado (ˌɪnkəˌmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ)
 
adv, —adj
(postpositive) deprived of communication with other people, as while in solitary confinement
 
[C19: from Spanish incomunicado, from incomunicar to deprive of communication; see in-1, communicate]

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incommunicado
1844, Amer.Eng., from Sp. incomunicado, pp. of incomunicar "deprive of communication," from in- "not" + comunicar "communicate," from L. communicare "to share, impart," from communis (see common).
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