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