immure
/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
immure verb: to cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
Verb
immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)
- To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- 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.1799, Mary Meeke, Elleſmere: A Novel, volume IV, William Lane, pages 219–220
- [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it...1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock...
- Synonyms:
- cloister, confine, hem up, imprison, incarcerate
- To put or bury within a wall.
- John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
- The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, volume 1, page 807
- Synonyms:
- inter
- To wall in.
- To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
- On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296
Noun
immure (plural immures)
immure meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
immure in Tamil
- தளைப்படுத்து
immure in Urdu
- دیوار بندی کرنا, قید کرنا
immure in Malayalam
- confine, intern, shut up
- തടവിലിടുക, ബന്ധിക്കുക, അകത്താക്കുക, പൂട്ടിയിടുക, അടച്ചിടുക, തടങ്കലിലാക്കുക
immure in Kannada
- ಕೂಡಿಹಾಕು, ಸೆರೆಗಟ್ಟು
Synonyms of immure
Forms of immure
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | immures |
| present participle | immuring |
| past participle | immured |
| past | immured |
| Noun | |
| plural | immures |
| alternative form | emure |
Origin of immure
From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.
Words formed from immure
Words that rhyme with immure
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about immure
- What does immure mean?
- Immure means to cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- What is immure in Tamil?
- Immure in Tamil is தளைப்படுத்து. See Immure meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is immure?
- Immure can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce immure?
- Immure is pronounced /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/.
- What is the past tense of immure?
- The past tense of immure is immured.
Words near immure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immure (page history and authors); immure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immure (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); immure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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