immure

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The U.S. has had to learn�repeatedly, with every immigrant wave�that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. has had to learn--repeatedly, with every immigrant wave--that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old Arch-fiend did them immure, To terrify them seeking; They bade them God's dear Word abjure, And fain would stop their speaking.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

"It grieves me," said she, "to see you, in the bloom of youth and health, immure yourself in a living tomb, and refuse the consolations you would receive from intercourse with your species."

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie