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

"What was Oliver's enmity towards you, that he should immure you here all these years?"

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various