immure

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Verb

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.

Noun

A wall; an enclosure.

Sînonîm

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

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

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Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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.