0 present participle of intern
1 to put someone in prison for political or military reasons, especially during a war:
Many foreigners were interned for the duration of the war.
Specifically designed institutions were necessary for interning miscreants who survived through begging and petty crime, and who caused problems of hygiene and order.
It was amazing: we worked seven days every week, we were interning, we were studying acting, voice, movement, the whole thing.
What it purports to do is to put criminal sanctions on a test that is not very dissimilar to the test for interning people.
But we did not go on interning on the general principle of rounding up.
There must be a power of interning in cases of proved necessity of danger.
These facts indicate that great care should be taken in interning alien enemies.
How was it found out there was no ease for interning them?
Apparently, he is responsible for the shipping and the interning, and responsible for the policy which we are fighting to-night.
