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im⋅mure

[i-myoo

–verb (used with object), -mured, -mur⋅ing.

1.	to enclose within walls.

2.	to shut in; seclude or confine.

3.	to imprison.

4.	to build into or entomb in a wall.

5.	Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.

Origin:
1575–85; < ML immūrāre, equiv. to L im- im- ¹ + -mūrāre, v. deriv. of mūrus wall (cf. mural )

Related forms:

im⋅mure⋅ment, im⋅mu⋅ra⋅tion [im-yuh-rey-shuh

, noun

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im·mure (ĭ-myŏŏr')

tr.v. im·mured, im·mur·ing, im·mures

To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
To build into a wall: immure a shrine.
To entomb in a wall.

[Medieval Latin immūrāre : Latin in-, in; see in-² + Latin mūrus, wall.]
im·mure'ment n.

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Immure

Im*mure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immured; p. pr. & vb. n. Immuring.] [Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.]

1. To wall around; to surround with walls. [Obs.] --Sandys.

2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. --Shak.

This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. --Milton.

Immure

Im*mure"\, n. A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Shak.

immure

1583, from M.L. immurare, lit. "to shut up within walls," from L. in- "in" + murus "wall" (see mural)

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