İngilizce dilinde "immure" tanımı

verb

1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

   • This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.

   • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

3. To wall in.

4. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

   • 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.

noun

1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.