interned
- 1Simple past and past participle of intern.
During the conflict, the authorities interned thousands of foreign nationals.
He was interned for nearly two years before the tribunal cleared him.
Note
One spelling, two quite different verbs behind it. When the meaning is confinement, as with people held without trial or foreign troops kept within set limits in wartime, the verb is transitive and turns passive easily: he was interned. When it means working as an intern, it takes no object and has no passive: she interned at a law firm. An object, or a 'be' before it, tells you which verb you are reading.
She interned at a law firm the summer after graduation.
He has interned with two newspapers since leaving school.
interned is a form of intern
intern, verb: To work as a trainee in a field, usually with little or no pay or the legal benefits of employment, for the purpose of furthering one's education. Full entry
- Spelling
- intern → interned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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