intern

1. (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.Examples: "The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II."; "That description was of a camp at the Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco, one of several centers in California where Japanese and Japanese-American residents (Issei and Nisei) were held before being interned in areas remote from the West Coast."; "Cuba could take pride in its health system. It could, that is, if it weren't for the way it treats those who test positive [for HIV], whether sick or not, interning them in an isolation that has no medical justification, that is against all scientific direction and is a frontal assault on all human rights."transitive

2. (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.Examples: "The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory."transitive

3. (transitive, programming) To internalize.Examples: "Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code."transitive