Usually means: Confinement within walls until death.
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  1. immurement: Merriam-Webster
  2. immurement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. immurement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. immurement: Vocabulary.com
  5. immurement: Wordnik
  6. immurement: Wiktionary
  7. Immurement, immurement: Dictionary.com
  8. Immurement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Immurement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. immurement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. immurement: Rhymezone
  12. Immurement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. immurement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. immurement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Immurement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. immurement: Legal dictionary

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  1. immurement: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (immurement)

▸ noun:  Capital punishment, human sacrifice or life imprisonment by entombing for life or sealing behind walls.

Similar:
captivity, incarceration, imprisonment, enshrining, bonds, entombment, encoffinment, interring, immuration, pent, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, emancipation, freedom

Adjectives:
long, voluntary, strange, monastic, perpetual, first, close

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Similar:
captivity, incarceration, imprisonment, enshrining, bonds, entombment, encoffinment, interring, immuration, pent, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, emancipation, freedom

Adjectives:
long, voluntary, strange, monastic, perpetual, first, close



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