immure

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wall; an enclosure. obsolete
    — […]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]
动词 v.
  1. To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. transitive
    — The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
  2. To put or bury within a wall. transitive
    — John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  3. To wall in.
  4. To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

immures present,singular,third-person immuring participle,present immured participle,past immured past immures plural emure alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bioimmure immured
相关词
immurement

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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