| 单词 | immure |
| 释义 | immure (once / 6739 pages) v When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space. You may recognize the -mur- in immure as the root for "wall," as in mural, which is a painting on a wall, or intramural, literally "inside the walls," as, for instance, the walls of a school — intramural sports are played among teams from the same school. You don't need a jail to immure someone. Rapunzel was immured in her tower. At the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are immured in the tomb. WORD FAMILYimmure: immured, immurement, immures, immuring+/immurement: immurements USAGE EXAMPLESWinnie, the central character — really the only one — is immured in earth up to her waist. New York Times(May 09, 2016) Only when Marina is brought to draw out Pericles does Mr. Carr show a man immured in his own grief gradually awakening to life. New York Times(Aug 21, 2015) She concludes that it must be “because she had not married. No man had taken her away and immured her in some comfortable suburb.” The New Yorker(Apr 03, 2015) v lock up or confine, in or as in a jail Syn|Hyper gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand confine, detain deprive of freedom; take into confinement |
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