circummure

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verb

To surround with, or as if with, a wall.

OriginLatin murus →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

verbcircummure (third-person singular simple present circummures, present participle circummuring, simple past and past participle circummured)

present singular third person circummures · participle present circummuring · participle past circummured · past circummured

  1. transitiveTo surround with, or as if with, a wall.

    This empty roof, / this sleeping town, this great stone wall / which circummures us.

    2001, Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe, Penguin Essentials (2020), page 109

Origin

  1. Latinmurus
  2. Englishcircummure

From circum- + Latin murus; compare immure.

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APA

circummure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circummure

MLA

“circummure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circummure. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circummure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circummure.

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