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immurement

/ih-myoor/US // ɪˈmyʊər //UK // (ɪˈmjʊə) //

监禁,不动产,移民

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·mured, im·mur·ing.

    • : to enclose within walls.
    • : to shut in; seclude or confine.
    • : to imprison.
    • : to build into or entomb in a wall.
    • : Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.

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Examples

  • I waited for him to begin, but he could not, whether from surprise or loss of readiness through such long immurement.

  • At the conclusion of this half century's immurement what would the world say to the Polish composer's music?

  • Thenceforward Ernesta had but one thought, that of saving her daughter from that awful life of immurement and entombment.

  • When this cell of immurement (reclusorium) was ready, the mind in Romuald was so that it scarcely could be imprisoned.

  • Even the ordinary secret sin corrodes the heart by its immurement, and the sin of Logs house was not an ordinary one.