Immure

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

2.VerbTo put or bury within a wall.

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

3.VerbTo wall in.

4.VerbTo trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

5.NounA wall; an enclosure.

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