immure

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

emmurer

incarcérer

confiner

geôle

imprisonner

incarcerer

emprisonner

introduire

mettre

prison

cloîtrer

enfermer

Synonymes

imprison

confine

incarcerate

mure

gaol

jail

put behind bars

put away

remand

enclose

jug

lag

pen

🖊️

quarantine

surround

wall

wall in

wall up

commit to prison

inclose

cage

coop

coop up

corral

encase

encircle

encompass

entomb

impound

brick up

intern

Traductions

carcerare

segregare

emparedar

encerrar

emparedar

recluir

murare vivi

einschließen

encarcerar

opsluiten

imprigionare

εγκλείω

φυλακίζω

insluiten

encarcerar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.