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immuring

immuring is the present participle and gerund 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

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Noun

immuring (plural immurings)

  1. The act of walling up.
    • […] what had often been read of in books, but for many generations had happily been unknown to England, for the incarcerations, the torturings, the starvings, the immurings, the murderings proper to a monastic; […]1857, John Henry Newman, Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England

Forms of immuring

pluralimmurings

Questions about immuring

What does immuring mean?
Immuring means the act of walling up.
What is immuring the present participle and gerund of?
Immuring is the present participle and gerund of immure.
What part of speech is immuring?
Immuring is a noun.
What is the plural of immuring?
The plural of immuring is immurings.

Words near immuring in the dictionary

  1. immure
  2. immured
  3. immurement
  4. immurements
  5. immures
  6. immuring
  7. immurings
  8. immusical
  9. immutabilities
  10. immutability
  11. immutable

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