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

Who was this man, who, in the flower of his age, and with all the accomplishments of a gentleman, chose to retire from the world, and with his sad companion, immure himself in the woods?

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Get you up into your chamber, cockatrice; and there immure yourself; be confined, I say, during our royal pleasure.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir