immure
immure 英 [ɪˈmjʊə(r)] 美 [ɪˈmjʊr]
vt. 把…嵌在墙上；监禁，禁闭
进行时:immuring 过去式:immured 过去分词:immured 第三人称单数:immures
- When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space.
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- vt. 把…嵌在墙上；监禁，禁闭
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1. Perhaps we could simply immure her.
也许我们可以简单地把她关起来。
- immure (v.) 1580s, "enclose with walls, shut up, confine," from Middle French emmurer and directly from Medieval Latin immurare, literally "to shut up within walls," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + Latin murus "wall" (see mural). Military sense of "fortify" is from 1590s. Related: Immured; immuring; immurement.
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