Internment Synonyms

ĭn-tûrnmənt
The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. imprisonment
Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. impoundment
  2. impounding
  3. poundage

Words Related to Internment

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Internment Sentence Examples

  • By the end of 1975, the government ended internment.

  • As a German living in England during World War I, he was sent to a British internment camp, where he rigged the hospital bed springs to create a form of exercise machine.

  • The second part of the novel moves on three years to the internment camp where Jim has spent the war.

  • The ATCSA 2001 introduced many extra powers including internment.

  • He was deposed on April 2 7, and sent to Salonika for internment and safe-keeping; and his successor, as Sultan Murad V., was proclaimed the same day.

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