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.
That has been done since we took to interning large numbers of aliens here in concentration camps.
If they are not, what reason is there for taking them wholesale, away from their work and their families, and interning them?
There must, of course, be cases where there is a reason, it may be a national reason, for not interning an alien enemy.
The aliens are all above military age, and no question of interning them has arisen.
Who would do the disarming and the interning?
It was not a case of interning him without trial; he was convicted and served his sentence.
There must be a power of interning in cases of proved necessity or danger.
Apparently, he is responsible for the shipping and the interning, and responsible for the policy which we are fighting to-night.
