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Keywords: confine, wartime, prison, war, d'internement

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.

to confine or impound during war

Keywords: custody, officer, private, law, placing

placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law