immure

/ɪˈmjʊə(r)/

noun

  1. 1

    A wall; an enclosure.

verb

  1. 1

    To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

  2. 2

    To put or bury within a wall.

    “John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.”
  3. 3

    (of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

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