immuration
/ih-myoor/US // ɪˈmyʊər //UK // (ɪˈmjʊə) //
不变性,净化,不变,监禁
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v.有主动词 verb
- 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
It never forged a chain to bind a heretic or an adversary, nor erected a prison to immure him.
Some of the consignees were mobbed, and all were obliged to fly to the castle, and there immure themselves.
I will immure myself against your cries, and lock myself up to your lamentations.
But it was affrighting to realize that the very physical feature which provided a refuge might also immure them in a living tomb.
She was not one of those napkin people who hide their talents, or who immure their lights under superincumbent bushels.
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