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immured

immured is the simple past and past participle of immure.

Adjective

immured (comparative more immured, superlative most immured)

  1. imprisoned or confined.
  2. buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
  3. walled in.
    • 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.1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, →ISBN, pages 118–119
  4. trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).

Meaning of immure

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
    Synonyms:
    inter
  3. To wall in.
  4. (transitive) 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

See all 5 meanings of immure

Forms of immured

comparativemore immured
superlativemost immured

Origin of immured

See etymology at immure.

Words formed from immured

Questions about immured

What does immured mean?
Immured means imprisoned or confined.
What is immured the simple past and past participle of?
Immured is the simple past and past participle of immure.
What part of speech is immured?
Immured is an adjective.

Words near immured in the dictionary

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