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.
She has a large merchant fleet for the time being safely interned in her own ports or in the ports of neutral countries.
There are six internment camps in use at present and there are 337 persons interned therein as enemy aliens.
The latest state of the internment camps in this country shows the number of interned enemy civilians as 18,607.
Nobody else has ever had any responsibility for determining whether aliens should be interned or not interned, or the numbers which should be interned.
Thirdly, prisoners of war, and interned civilians and soldiers and sailors in hospital or on sick leave.
When the fathers, the brothers, the cousins and the uncles of those interned are released, there will be no problem.
I trust that an opportunity will be given to raise, and discuss the question of the utilisation of the interned steamers.
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.
