immure

vt. 监禁, 禁闭

发音

US /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

词形变化

immures 复数 immured immures 三单 immures immuring immuring 现在分词 immured 过去式 immured 过去分词

别名

emure emmure enmure

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wall; an enclosure.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

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

    监禁

    关押

    及物

    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. 2.

    To put or bury within a wall.

    埋藏

    埋葬

    活埋

    及物

    John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

  3. 3.

    To wall in.

  4. 4.

    To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

    及物 化学 地质

    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.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 8

jail jug lag remand imprison gaol incarcerate put away

上位词 2

detain confine

词源

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

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