0 past simple and past 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.
Most commentators believed that many ' incorrigibles ' had to be interned in security confinement after their prison or penitentiary sentence, in order to protect society.
Those who were considered able-bodied were to be put to work immediately and those who were not were to be interned in special institutions.
Individuals whose relatives went abroad out of dire economic necessity were suspect; families of men interned during the military campaign became 'socially dangerous elements'.
Relief parcels would be equitably distributed among all nationalities interned in the camps.
Thereafter, he was interned, but soon released.
The aim was to neutralize real or potential partisans as well as to remove their support so that women, children and old people were interned along with able-bodied men.
This changed again after the 1921 truce, when politics came up from underground, and in 1922 and 1923, when most male activists were interned or on the run.
Rather than assuaging public opinion by alleviating the conditions of a defined population interned in concentration camps, the parcel scheme threatened to have the opposite effect.
