Immure

Quick meaning: Immure is a verb meaning (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

Meaning

(transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
2. To wall in.
3. (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.
4. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Example Sentences

John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

Immured in Heaven! What a Cell! / Let every bondage be, / Thou Sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!

The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.

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

Word Forms

• immures
• immuring
• immured

Synonyms for immure

Depending on context, synonyms include cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate, inter, gaol.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imprison, incarcerate, gaol, jail, jug, remand.

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