INTERNEE Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

internee

noun

Definition of internee

as in prisoner

one that has been taken and held in confinement all internees were released upon the cessation of hostilities

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Recent Examples of internee As a former internee at Guantánamo and a onetime federal inmate, Rey had enough experience to be immediately alarmed by the chaos at Camp East Montana. — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

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This was discontinued when SOE chiefs realized that a dagger would be the first thing taken from a prisoner.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
West Virginia was one of a few states – alongside Maryland and Texas – to receive these excess urban prisoners.

— Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

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