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opsluiten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • immure verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
  • incarcerate verb To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.

Senses

opsluiten is used for these senses in English:

  • immure (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
  • incarcerate (chiefly, US, transitive, ) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.

immure — full definition

  1. verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
  2. verb To put or bury within a wall.
  3. verb To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

incarcerate — full definition

  1. verb To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
  2. verb To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

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