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  • verb Present participle of immure.

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Examples

  • WoW remains the most embodied and immuring game I have ever played.

    World of Warcraft is The Loneliest Road Ben Abraham 2009

  • WoW remains the most embodied and immuring game I have ever played.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" involves a particularly cruel murder -- the immuring of the victim in a cellar -- and 50 years later, when the perpetrator tells the story, he does not appear burdened by regret or guilt.

    Lost in Fiction Alexander McCall Smith 2009

  • Cameron, Obama (if he is not in their pocket) et al can forget about global warming and concentrate on rounding up the entire membership of theClub of Rome and their associates and immuring thhem in a top security institution for the criminally insane before the kill the lot of us.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Empedocles brought to justice some of the principal of his city, and caused them to be condemned for their insolent behavior and embezzling of the public treasure, and also delivered his country from sterility and the plague — to which calamities it was before subject — by immuring and stopping up the holes of certain mountains, whence there issued an hot south wind, which overspread all the plain country and blasted it.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • “I have always thought,” he said reflectively, “that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crêpe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee.”

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • “I have always thought,” he said reflectively, “that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crêpe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee.”

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • “I have always thought,” he said reflectively, “that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crêpe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee.”

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • “I have always thought,” he said reflectively, “that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crêpe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee.”

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • “I have always thought,” he said reflectively, “that the system of mourning, of immuring women in crêpe for the rest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee.”

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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