Synonyms for internment
ɪnˈtɜrn məntin·tern·ment

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1. internmentnoun

   confinement during wartime

   Synonyms:
   impoundment, impounding, imprisonment, poundage

2. imprisonment, internmentnoun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

   Synonyms:
   poundage, captivity, impounding, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration

3. impoundment, impounding, internment, poundagenoun

   placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

   Synonyms:
   imprisonment, impoundment, impounding, poundage

Matched Categories

1. • Captivity
   • Confinement
   • Law
   • Seizure

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1. List of paraphrases for "internment":

   confinement, detention, placement, committal, institutionalization, incarceration

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1. Dan Werb:

   What we’ve seen across the world — in Mexico and Southeast Asia and China — is that ‘treatment centers’ that are mandated can effectively turn into internment camps.

2. Lee Yumi:

   When it catches them, it sends them back (to North Korea), where they face torture, internment in a labor camp and sometimes death.

3. Kevin Mack:

   Yesterday Donald Trump was putting children in internment camps, and today Donald Trump's putting families in internment camps. We think both things are wrong.

4. Colleen Hanabusa:

   This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.

5. Antony Blinken:

   Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the United States reiterates The United States calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.