immure.
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
Meaning & usage
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
To put or bury within a wall.
John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
To wall in.
To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.
A wall; an enclosure.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.
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