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Internment Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ment

Internment has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

confinement during wartime

2

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

3

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

4

Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
captivity confinement seizure
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
lockdown false imprisonment custody drug bust
Rhyming Words
ent bent ment went sent vent pent hent cent fent dent tent kent gent rent lent djent ament seent brent
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