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Capital punishment, human sacrifice or life imprisonment by entombing for life or sealing behind walls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the state of being imprisoned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was held in captivity until he died
- the imprisonment of captured soldiers
- his ignominious incarceration in the local jail
- he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: confinement
Narrower terms: durance, life imprisonment, internment
Etymology tree English immure Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English immurement From immure + -ment.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Acehnese:
pembatasan
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Basque:
immigrazioa
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Belarusian:
замуровывание
(zamuróvyvanije)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Bulgarian:
зазиждане
(zaziždane)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Catalan:
emparedament
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Catalan:
immuració
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Danish:
imurering
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Dutch:
inmetseling
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Finnish:
elävältä muuraaminen
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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French:
emmurement
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Friulian:
immunizazion
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Galician:
immuración
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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German:
Einmauerung
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Greek:
περιτείχιση
(periteíchisi)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Macedonian:
заѕидување
(zadziduvanje)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Polish:
uwięzienie
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Portuguese:
emparedamento
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Romanian:
imurirea
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Russian:
замуро́вывание
(zamuróvyvanije)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Serbo-Croatian:
zazidavanje
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Spanish:
emparedamiento
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Swedish:
inmurning
— capital punishment by entombing for life
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Ukrainian:
замуро́вування
(zamuróvuvannja)
— capital punishment by entombing for life
