immure

Speech parts

1. immure - Noun

2. immure - Verb

Meaning

To wall around; to surround with walls.

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

A wall; an inclosure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

imprison incarcerate gaol jail lag jug confine remand put away put behind bars inter mew bastille cloister keep
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Antonyms

cocker back allow aid benefit encourage
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Hypernyms

confine detain

Derivatives

immured immuring

Examples

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. George Steiner

To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment. Emil Cioran

He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great. William Ellery Channing

The suspects were imprisoned without trial Source: Internet

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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