einkerkern — meaning in English

English meaning

• Bastille noun A fortress or prison, especially one associated with harsh or unjust treatment of its inmates.
• immure verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
• imprison verb To put someone in prison, or to confine them against their will.

Senses

einkerkern is used for these senses in English:

• bastille (transitive, also, figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
• immure (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
• imprison (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.

Bastille — full definition

1. noun A fortress or prison, especially one associated with harsh or unjust treatment of its inmates.
2. noun Capitalized: the Bastille, a Paris fortress-prison whose storming by an angry crowd in 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution.

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.

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