immure

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

carcerare

segregare

imprigionare

murare vivi

incarcerare

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

emparedar

encerrar

emmurer

emparedar

recluir

encarcerar

incarcérer

opsluiten

confiner

einschließen

εγκλείω

geôle

imprisonner

incarcerer

enfermer

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: 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.