IMMURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immure mean? 

• IMMURE (verb)
  The verb IMMURE has 1 sense:

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

  Familiarity information: IMMURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they immure    ... he / she / it immures   
Past simple: immured   
Past participle: immured   
-ing form: immuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Context example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Hypernyms (to "immure" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to immure the prisoners

Derivation:

immurement (the state of being imprisoned)

 Context examples 

It may be a sacrifice, said Mrs. Micawber, to immure one's-self in a Cathedral town; but surely, Mr. Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice in me, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We were immured in ice and should probably never escape, but they feared that if, as was possible, the ice should dissipate and a free passage be opened, I should be rash enough to continue my voyage and lead them into fresh dangers, after they might happily have surmounted this.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)