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immurement noun

  • Capital punishment, human sacrifice or life imprisonment by entombing for life or sealing behind walls.
 emmurement

immure verb

  /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
  • (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
  • (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
 emmurer
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