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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Spanish
Origin: incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar 'to make it impossible to communicate'

incommunicado

 adverb, adjective
     
in‧com‧mu‧ni‧ca‧do
if you are incommunicado, you are in a place where other people cannot speak to you:
He is reportedly being held incommunicado at a military prison.
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