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enmure

enmure is the obsolete form of immure.

Meaning of immure

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

  1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
    • The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.1799, Mary Meeke, Elleſmere: A Novel, volume IV, William Lane, pages 219–220
  2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
    Synonyms:
    inter
  3. To wall in.
  4. (transitive) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
    • On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296

See all 5 meanings of immure

Forms of enmure

third-person singular presentenmures
present participleenmuring
past participleenmured
pastenmured

Questions about enmure

What is enmure the obsolete form of?
Enmure is the obsolete form of immure.

Words near enmure in the dictionary

  1. enmoving
  2. enmuffle
  3. enmuffled
  4. enmuffles
  5. enmuffling
  6. enmure
  7. enmured
  8. enmures
  9. enmuring
  10. enn-
  11. Enna

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