Immured

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

2.verbTo put or bury within a wall.

"John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum."

3.verb(of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

4.adjectiveImprisoned or confined

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