different between immure vs restrain

English

Etymology

From Middle French emmurer, from Old French, from Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in (“in”), + m?rus (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mj??(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
   • 1799, Mary Meeke, Elle?mere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:

     The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.

   • 1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, Preface,

     In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.

   • 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:

     This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.

   John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

   • 1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, Volume 1, page 807,

     The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

3. To wall in.
4. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
   • 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,

     On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and ${\displaystyle v}$ rises sharply.

Synonyms

• (imprison): cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate
• (bury): inter

Derived terms

• immured

Related terms

• immurement

Translations

Noun

immure (plural immures)

1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Alternative forms

• emure

English

Etymology

From Middle English restreinen, a borrowing from Old French restreindre, from Latin r?stringere, present active infinitive of r?string? (“fasten, tighten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: re?strain

Verb

restrain (third-person singular simple present restrains, present participle restraining, simple past and past participle restrained)

1. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
2. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
3. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

   He was restrained by the straitjacket.

Synonyms

• (control or keep in check): check, limit, restrain, withstrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
• (deprive of liberty): confine, detain

Related terms

• constrain
• restraint
• restrict

Translations

Anagrams

• arrestin, retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers, transire