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

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

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

Have they not forced him to immure himself here in the hills, when he should by rights be reigning in Rome?

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert

He voluntarily left Paris to immure himself in his native town of Aix, there to work out in peace long-planned projects, which would, he believed, revolutionise the technique of painting.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James