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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Smith was a redhead, short and slightly built, with a pleasant nature, at least according to the Courant, which had regular access to the prisoner, including occasions when reprieves were delivered.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
Miguel Banuelos, a prisoner who walked away from Washington Ridge Conservation Camp in California and was captured in Tijuana, Mexico, was reported at large again after a Mexican magistrate released him, officials said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026

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