immure

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
3. To wall in.
4. (transitive) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

Noun

A wall; an enclosure.

Conceptes

recloure

empresonar

encarcerar

engarjolar

Sinònims

imprison

confine

incarcerate

mure

gaol

jail

put behind bars

put away

remand

enclose

jug

lag

pen

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quarantine

surround

wall

wall in

wall up

commit to prison

inclose

cage

coop

coop up

corral

encase

encircle

encompass

entomb

impound

brick up

intern

Traduccions

carcerare

emmurer

encerrar

emparedar

segregare

emparedar

encarcerar

recluir

murare vivi

imprigionare

incarcérer

confiner

einschließen

opsluiten

prison

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: enmuren

In summary

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.