immure
verb /ɪˈmjʊə(r)/
/ɪˈmjʊr/
[often passive] (literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they immure | /ɪˈmjʊə(r)/ /ɪˈmjʊr/ |
| he / she / it immures | /ɪˈmjʊəz/ /ɪˈmjʊrz/ |
| past simple immured | /ɪˈmjʊəd/ /ɪˈmjʊrd/ |
| past participle immured | /ɪˈmjʊəd/ /ɪˈmjʊrd/ |
| -ing form immuring | /ɪˈmjʊərɪŋ/ /ɪˈmjʊrɪŋ/ |
- to shut somebody in a place so that they cannot get out synonym imprison
- be immured (+ adv./prep.) At the age of 86 he was immured in his house by infirmity.
- (figurative) a society immured in ignorance and superstition
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French emmurer or medieval Latin immurare, from in- ‘in’ + murus ‘wall’.