immuring
verb
- 1
To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
- 2
To put or bury within a wall.
“John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.”
- 3
(of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
noun
- 1
The act of walling up.
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