Usually means: Enclosing someone within walls permanently.
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  1. immuring: Merriam-Webster
  2. immuring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. immuring: Vocabulary.com
  4. immuring: Wordnik
  5. immuring: Wiktionary
  6. Immuring, immuring: Dictionary.com
  7. Immuring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Immuring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Immuring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. immuring: FreeDictionary.org
  11. immuring: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Immuring: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. immuring: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of walling up.

Similar:
gaol, jail, put away, imprison, incarcerate, lag, jug, remand, put behind bars, immuration, more...

Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating

Types:
bricking up, masonry, entombing, burial, more...

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Similar:
gaol, jail, put away, imprison, incarcerate, lag, jug, remand, put behind bars, immuration, more...

Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating

Types:
bricking up, masonry, entombing, burial, more...



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