immure
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Verb
immures, 3rd person singular present; immured, past participle; immured, past tense; immuring, present participle;
/iˈmyo͝or/,
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immures, 3rd person singular present; immured, past participle; immured, past tense; immuring, present participle;
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Enclose or confine (someone) against their will
- - her brother was immured in a lunatic asylum
Web Definitions:
- imprison: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- Immurement is a form of execution where a person is walled up within a building and left to die from starvation or dehydration. This is distinct from a premature burial, where the victim typically dies of asphyxiation.
- to put or bury within a wall
- (immured) enclosed or imprisoned (immurement)
- im·mure (î-my˘rą) verb, transitive im·mured, im·mur·ing, im·mures 1. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison. 2. To build into a wall: immure a shrine. 3. To entomb in a wall. [Medieval Latin immúrâre : Latin in-, in.] . im·mureąment noun
- verb - 1. to inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate 2. to build into or entomb in a wall 3. [obsolete] to wall around; to surround with walls