IMMURE

imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand

(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”; “the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

(transitive) To put or bury within a wall.

(transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

Synonyms

• (imprison): cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate

• (bury): inter

Noun

immure (plural immures)

(obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Source: Wiktionary


Im*mure", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immured; p. pr. & vb. n. Immuring.] Etym: [Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.]

1. To wall around; to surround with walls. [Obs.] Sandys.

2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

Im*mure", n.

Definition: A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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