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. Donald Trump:

   President Donald Trump and the United States Olympic Committee should jointly announce that the American delegation will boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics unless Xinjiang's internment camps are shuttered and subsequently demolished.

2. Samantha Bee:

   Yay, no more baby internment camps.

3. United States:

   At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.

4. 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.

5. 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.