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immure

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/ɪˈmjʊə(r)/ English

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noun

  1. A wall; an enclosure.

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.

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