immure


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
immure /ɪˈmjʊə, ɪˈmjɔː/
verb confine or imprison.
– derivatives
immurement noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. emmurer or med. L. immurare, from in- ‘in’ + murus ‘wall’.
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