The government interned the enemy prisoners in the camps for a few months.
•He was interned in a prison camp during the war.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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box something/someone in — HEM IN, fence in, close in, shut in; trap, confine, imprison, intern; surround, enclose, encircle, circle. → box … Useful english dictionary
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