immure

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verb

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
• Syn:
imprison, incarcerate, lag, put behind bars, jail,
jug, gaol, put away, remand
• Derivationally related forms:
remand (for: remand), gaoler (for: gaol), gaol (for: gaol), jailer (for: jail), jailor (for: jail), jail (for: jail), immurement, incarceration (for: incarcerate), imprisonment (for: imprison)
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
confine, detain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to immure the prisoners