IMMURE Definition & Meaning

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immure

[ ih-myoor ]

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verb (used with object)

immured, immuring.

to enclose within walls.
to shut in; seclude or confine.
to imprison.
to build into or entomb in a wall.
Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.

immure

/ 瑟藞尘箩蕣蓹 /

verb

archaic.
to enclose within or as if within walls; imprison
to shut (oneself) away from society
obsolete.
to build into or enclose within a wall

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Derived Forms

颈尘藞尘耻谤别尘别苍迟, noun

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Other 榶心vlog Forms

颈尘路尘耻谤别顎僲别苍迟 颈尘路尘耻路谤补路迟颈辞苍 [im-y, uh, -, rey, -sh, uh, n], noun
self顎�-颈尘路尘耻谤别顎僲别苍迟 noun
蝉别濒蹿顎�-颈尘路尘耻谤顎僫苍驳 adjective
耻苍顎卛尘路尘耻谤别诲顎� adjective

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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of immure¹

1575鈥�85; < Medieval Latin 颈尘尘奴谤腻谤别, equivalent to Latin im- im- ¹ + -尘奴谤腻谤别, verbal derivative of 尘奴谤耻蝉 wall ( mural )

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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of immure¹

C16: from Medieval Latin 颈尘尘奴谤腻谤别, from Latin im- (in) + 尘奴谤耻蝉 a wall

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Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland鈥檚 Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.

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Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.

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Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water鈥檚 surface.

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More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their 鈥渃ounterrevolutionary formalist methods.鈥�

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In the century or so since 鈥淭he Great Gatsby鈥� was published, we have been lost in Gatsby鈥檚 house, immured in a never-ending revival.

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