Associations to the word «Immure»
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Wiktionary
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) (crystallography and geology) (of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
IMMURE, noun. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
Dictionary definition
IMMURE, verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life".
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