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immured en · ADJ

Etymology

See etymology at immure.

Meanings

  1. imprisoned or confined.
  2. buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
  3. walled in.
    • Pompeians were packed inside defensive walls, and they came and went through gates—the Herculaneum Gate, the Vesuvius Gate, the Water Gate. Vestmann islanders, while clustered, were immured by nothing but the sea, and they came and went through their famous harbor. 1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
  4. (of impurities in a growing crystal) trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).

Forms

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most immured Degree=Sup lexicographic
more immured Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unimmured

immured en · VERB

Etymology

See etymology at immure.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of immure
    form of immure