See mure in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mures",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "muring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mured",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
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"args": {},
"expansion": "mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"to wall in or fortify"
],
"links": [
[
"wall in",
"wall in"
],
[
"fortify",
"fortify"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) to wall in or fortify"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "Therewith he mured up his mouth along,\nAnd therein shut up his blasphemous tong",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)",
"text": "The five kings are mured in a cave."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To enclose or imprison within walls."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mjʊə(ɹ)/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊə(ɹ)"
}
],
"word": "mure"
}
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