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murare.

to wall up

6 characters3 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

verb/muˈra.re/
  1. to wall up

    transitive
  2. to embed into a wall

    transitive
  3. to brick someone alive (usually as a form of capital punishment and with vivo (“alive”) added)

    transitive
    Il filosofo Emanuele Franz, dopo aver vissuto in un bidone dell'immondizia, si fa murare vivo per protestare contro la società.
Where this word comes from

From Late Latin mūrāre (“to provide or surround with walls”). By surface analysis, muro + -are.

verb/muˈra.re/
  1. to haul on the tack (a rope holding the lowest sails in place)

    transitive
  2. to affix the corner of the tack (the lower corner of leading edge of a sail) in place

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From mura (“tack”) + -are.

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