immure

Senso (Inglese)

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

imprison

confine

mure

put behind bars

commit to prison

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

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.

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