immure

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

immures

V_ing/Gerund

immuring

V_ed/pp

immured

1.
(transitive)To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
2.
(transitive)To put or bury within a wall.
John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
3.
To wall in.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296, On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

immuresemure

1.
(obsolete)A wall; an enclosure.

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Đồng nghĩa

cloister confinehem upimprisonincarcerateinterimprison cloister, confine, hem up, imprison, incarceratebury inter

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bioimmureimmuredimmurement

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (wall). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.