immure

  1. Verb.  (transitive, lang en) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  2. Verb.  (transitive, lang en) To put or bury within a wall.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, crystallography) To trap or capture (an impurity); (non-gloss definition, chiefly in the participial adjective {{term) and gerund or gerundial noun (term, immuring) .}}.

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