immure

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Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. has had to learn�repeatedly, with every immigrant wave�that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. has had to learn--repeatedly, with every immigrant wave--that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if you were to take the same person in middle life and immure him in a laboratory, that he might become an enthusiastic chemist, the limits of human nature would probably forbid your success.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

"Your grandmother may immure me in this dungeon, and scare away my senses; but she will never rob me of my hopes of salvation."

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison