immure

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

einschließen

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

carcerare

emmurer

emparedar

encerrar

segregare

emparedar

recluir

encarcerar

incarcérer

murare vivi

imprigionare

confiner

opsluiten

incarcerer

περιτειχίζω

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: 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.