English to Xhosa Meaning of immure - immure

Immure :

immure

verb

ejele, bamvalele, zibopha, ijagi, yindawo yokuhlala, udonga

Immure :: immureImmured :: immuredImmures :: immuresImmuring :: immuring

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Definitions of immure in English

Verb(1) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Examples of immure in English

(1) Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do.(2) It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home.(3) So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring.(4) Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel.(5) The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles.(6) In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ├ö├ç├┐less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.├ö├ç├û(7) ├ö├ç├┐I longed sadly for some gaiety├ö├ç├û, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ├ö├ç├┐but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.├ö├ç├û(8) There was ├ö├ç├┐not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists├ö├ç├┐.(9) Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.(10) It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along.(11) Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death.(12) There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated.(13) The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour.(14) We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past.(15) He's able to create and be creative without immuring himself in a kind of misery.(16) The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities.

(1) immunology ::

zizifo

Synonyms

Verb

1. confine ::

bamvalele

2. intern ::

ugqirha omtsha osafundayo esibhedlele

3. shut up ::

thula

5. incarcerate ::

incarcerate

6. imprison ::

zibopha

7. jail ::

ejele

8. cage ::

yindawo yokuhlala

9. put behind bars ::

zibekwe emva imivalo

10. put under lock and key ::

wabeka phantsi lock Iqhosha

11. hold captive ::

ubambe mthinjwa

12. hold prisoner ::

eyayi babambelela

13. detain ::

agqunywe

14. hold ::

ubambe

Antonyms

1. discharge ::

wokuqhuba

2. free ::

free

3. liberate ::

uvuse

4. release ::

ukukhululwa

Different Forms

immure, immured, immures, immuring

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