Definition of immure in English:

immure

verb ɪˈmjɔːɪˈmjʊəɪˈmjʊr

[with object]

Enclose or confine (someone) against their will.
her brother was immured in a lunatic asylum
Example sentencesExamples
- It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along.
- Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel.
- It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home.
- There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated.
- We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past.
- So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring.
- The thought of immuring them in concrete, although an idea originated by the director, really appealed to me.
- The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles.
- The angry, obsessive, maddened father's reaction to this disaster is to immure her and her mother in their house, building more and more partition walls around them until finally they are imprisoned on a bed in a tiny space.
- Its purpose was to immure the emperor, protecting him from the gaze of the common people, who were forbidden from entering.
- The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour.
- Erika, meanwhile, immures herself in the mansion.
- ‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’
- Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death.
- He's able to create and be creative without immuring himself in a kind of misery.
- Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
- There was ‘not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists‘.
- Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do.
- The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities.
- In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ‘less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.’
Synonyms
confine, intern, shut up, lock up, incarcerate, imprison, jail, put away, put behind bars, put under lock and key, hold captive, hold prisoner
coop up, mew up, fence in, wall in, close in
detain, keep, hold, trap

Derivatives

immurement

noun ɪˈmjɔːm(ə)ntɪˈmjʊəm(ə)ntɪˈmjʊrmənt

Unfortunately, the coming of Shakuni, accompanying his sister to her life-long immurement in darkness in Hastinapura compelled by Bhishma, changed the entire completion of the situation.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is about a 14th-century anchoress who after three years of immurement waiting for divine revelation which did not come, declares, as many have done, ‘there is no God’.
- The glass of Amontillado he drinks is suggested by Poe's own narrative of morbid immurement.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French emmurer or medieval Latin immurare, from in- 'in' + murus 'wall'.

Rhymes

abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, pure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're

Definition of immure in US English:

immure

verbɪˈmjʊriˈmyo͝or

[with object]usually be immured

Enclose or confine (someone) against their will.
her brother was immured in a lunatic asylum
Example sentencesExamples
- It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home.
- The thought of immuring them in concrete, although an idea originated by the director, really appealed to me.
- There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated.
- Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
- The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities.
- The angry, obsessive, maddened father's reaction to this disaster is to immure her and her mother in their house, building more and more partition walls around them until finally they are imprisoned on a bed in a tiny space.
- So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring.
- The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles.
- ‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’
- Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do.
- Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death.
- There was ‘not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists‘.
- In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ‘less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.’
- We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past.
- Erika, meanwhile, immures herself in the mansion.
- The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour.
- He's able to create and be creative without immuring himself in a kind of misery.
- Its purpose was to immure the emperor, protecting him from the gaze of the common people, who were forbidden from entering.
- Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel.
- It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along.
Synonyms
confine, intern, shut up, lock up, incarcerate, imprison, jail, put away, put behind bars, put under lock and key, hold captive, hold prisoner

Origin

Late 16th century: from French emmurer or medieval Latin immurare, from in- ‘in’ + murus ‘wall’.

单词	immure
释义	Definition of immure in English: immure verb ɪˈmjɔːɪˈmjʊəɪˈmjʊr [with object] Enclose or confine (someone) against their will. her brother was immured in a lunatic asylum Example sentencesExamples It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along. Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel. It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home. There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated. We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The thought of immuring them in concrete, although an idea originated by the director, really appealed to me. The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles. The angry, obsessive, maddened father's reaction to this disaster is to immure her and her mother in their house, building more and more partition walls around them until finally they are imprisoned on a bed in a tiny space. Its purpose was to immure the emperor, protecting him from the gaze of the common people, who were forbidden from entering. The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour. Erika, meanwhile, immures herself in the mansion. ‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’ Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death. He's able to create and be creative without immuring himself in a kind of misery. Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister. There was ‘not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists‘. Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do. The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities. In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ‘less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.’ Synonyms confine, intern, shut up, lock up, incarcerate, imprison, jail, put away, put behind bars, put under lock and key, hold captive, hold prisoner coop up, mew up, fence in, wall in, close in detain, keep, hold, trap Derivatives immurement noun ɪˈmjɔːm(ə)ntɪˈmjʊəm(ə)ntɪˈmjʊrmənt Unfortunately, the coming of Shakuni, accompanying his sister to her life-long immurement in darkness in Hastinapura compelled by Bhishma, changed the entire completion of the situation. Example sentencesExamples It is about a 14th-century anchoress who after three years of immurement waiting for divine revelation which did not come, declares, as many have done, ‘there is no God’. The glass of Amontillado he drinks is suggested by Poe's own narrative of morbid immurement. Origin Late 16th century: from French emmurer or medieval Latin immurare, from in- 'in' + murus 'wall'. Rhymes abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, pure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're Definition of immure in US English: immure verbɪˈmjʊriˈmyo͝or [with object]usually be immured Enclose or confine (someone) against their will. her brother was immured in a lunatic asylum Example sentencesExamples It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not - otherwise you'd all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home. The thought of immuring them in concrete, although an idea originated by the director, really appealed to me. There were but two filo triangles, which made sharing among three a bit tricky, but the bay scallops immured within the flaky pastry were so big you could split one between two people and neither would feel too cheated. Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister. The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities. The angry, obsessive, maddened father's reaction to this disaster is to immure her and her mother in their house, building more and more partition walls around them until finally they are imprisoned on a bed in a tiny space. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The country house is immured in said country, with no real society for miles. ‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’ Being immured in prison has not left me with much to do. Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death. There was ‘not the slightest sign of his becoming immured in his own work, as happens to so many creative artists‘. In contrast, White often found reforming local priests ‘less radical because they were far more deeply immured in the reality of their country.’ We are, indeed, truly immured in our colonial past. Erika, meanwhile, immures herself in the mansion. The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour. He's able to create and be creative without immuring himself in a kind of misery. Its purpose was to immure the emperor, protecting him from the gaze of the common people, who were forbidden from entering. Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel. It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along. Synonyms confine, intern, shut up, lock up, incarcerate, imprison, jail, put away, put behind bars, put under lock and key, hold captive, hold prisoner Origin Late 16th century: from French emmurer or medieval Latin immurare, from in- ‘in’ + murus ‘wall’.
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