immures

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

   Synonyms:

   cloister, confine, hem up, imprison, incarcerate

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

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