"immure" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-us-immure.ogg [US] Forms: immures [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ) Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|enmuren}} Middle English enmuren, {{bor|en|frm|emmurer}} Middle French emmurer, {{der|en|fro|enmurer}} Old French enmurer, {{der|en|la|immūrō}} Latin immūrō, {{m|la|in-}} in-, {{m|la|mūrus|t=wall}} mūrus (“wall”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} immure (plural immures)
  1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: emure
    Sense id: en-immure-en-noun--yr2fMdk

Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-us-immure.ogg [US] Forms: immures [present, singular, third-person], immuring [participle, present], immured [participle, past], immured [past]
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ) Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|enmuren}} Middle English enmuren, {{bor|en|frm|emmurer}} Middle French emmurer, {{der|en|fro|enmurer}} Old French enmurer, {{der|en|la|immūrō}} Latin immūrō, {{m|la|in-}} in-, {{m|la|mūrus|t=wall}} mūrus (“wall”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)
  1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Burial Synonyms (imprison): cloister, confine, hem up, imprison, incarcerate Translations (to lock up behind walls): զնդանել (zndanel) (Armenian), արգելափակել (argelapʻakel) (Armenian), 監禁 (Chinese Mandarin), 监禁 (jiānjìn) (Chinese Mandarin), 關押 (Chinese Mandarin), 关押 (guānyā) (Chinese Mandarin), opsluiten (Dutch), panna kiven sisään (Finnish), emmurer (French), einkerkern (German), einsperren (German), enmurigar (Ido), zamurowywać [imperfective] (Polish), zamurować [perfective] (Polish), emparedar (Portuguese), заточа́ть (zatočátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), заточи́ть (zatočítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), encerrar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-immure-en-verb-6sNiVqeq Disambiguation of Burial: 1 19 25 26 30 Disambiguation of 'imprison': 55 2 25 18 Disambiguation of 'to lock up behind walls': 47 10 23 20
  2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Burial Synonyms (bury): inter Translations (to put or bury within a wall): որմնաշարել (ormnašarel) (Armenian), 埋藏 (máicáng) (english: bury) (Chinese Mandarin), 埋葬 (máizàng) (english: inter) (Chinese Mandarin), 活埋 (huómái) (english: bury alive) (Chinese Mandarin), inmetselen (Dutch), muurata (sisään) (Finnish), sulkea (sisään) (Finnish), einmauern (German), enmurigar (Ido), emparedar (Portuguese), замуро́вывать (zamuróvyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), замурова́ть (zamurovátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), emparedar (Spanish), encerrar (Spanish), mura in (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-immure-en-verb-hfIekfqA Disambiguation of Burial: 1 19 25 26 30 Disambiguation of 'bury': 12 69 14 5 Disambiguation of 'to put or bury within a wall': 3 92 4 1
  3. To wall in. Categories (topical): Burial
    Sense id: en-immure-en-verb-kzazeuv8 Disambiguation of Burial: 1 19 25 26 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 15 3 51 30
  4. (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. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Crystallography, Geology, Burial
    Sense id: en-immure-en-verb-ZKnAYDV7 Disambiguation of Burial: 1 19 25 26 30 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 20 3 31 43 Topics: chemistry, crystallography, geography, geology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: immured Related terms: immurement

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          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "1799, Mary Meeke, Elleſmere: A Novel, volume IV, William Lane, pages 219–220",
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          "ref": "1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105",
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          "ref": "1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, Preface",
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          "ref": "1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71",
          "text": "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."
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      "word": "einsperren"
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      "word": "埋藏"
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