Immure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
  • v. To build into a wall: immure a shrine.
  • v. To entomb in a wall.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  • v. To put or bury within a wall.
  • v. To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
  • n. A wall; an enclosure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To wall around; to surround with walls.
  • v. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
  • n. A wall; an inclosure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To surround with walls; wall; fortify; protect.
  • To inclose within walls; hence, to shut up or confine, in general.
  • n. An inclosure; a wall.
  • To build into a wall; imbed in masonry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  • Verb Form
    immured    immures    immuring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    detain    confine   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    imprison    incarcerate    wall    inclosure    confine