Immured
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Immured is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of immure.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of immure.
More Meanings
- imprisoned or confined.
- buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
- walled in.
- (crystallography and geology, of impurities in a growing crystal) trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).
Example Sentences
Pompeians were packed inside defensive walls, and they came and went through gates—the Herculaneum Gate, the Vesuvius Gate, the Water Gate. Vestmann islanders, while clustered, were immured by nothing but the sea, and they came and went through their famous harbor.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intermured, pent, captive, incarcerate, walled, incaverned.
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