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
- verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- verb To put or bury within a wall.
- verb To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
incarcerate — full definition
- verb To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
- verb To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.