immure
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
transitive
The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
To put or bury within a wall.
transitive
John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
To wall in.
To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
transitive
On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.
1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,
Where it comes from
From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry immure (CC BY-SA 4.0).