MEANING
To enclose someone or something within walls, or otherwise confine them closely.
Use it for
Domestic imprisonment, enclosing walls, voluntary or imposed withdrawal.Give confinement a material boundary and a sense of prolonged enclosure.
Words that belong together
- immure in a room
- immure within walls
- immure oneself
On the page
The guardian immured her in the upper rooms.
He had immured himself among his books for twenty years.
A legend claimed the mason immured a treasure within the chapel wall.
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Word forms
- Base
- immure / immures
- Past tense
- immured
- Past participle
- immured
- Present participle
- immuring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- immure / immures
- Present continuous
- am/is/are immuring
- Present perfect
- have/has immured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been immuring
- Past
- immured
- Past continuous
- was/were immuring
- Past perfect
- had immured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been immuring
- Future
- will immure / immures
- Future continuous
- will be immuring
- Future perfect
- will have immured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been immuring
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Literary or formal; literally may mean wall in, but figurative confinement is common. Stronger than simply shelter. Verb: immure, immures, immured, immured, immuring. Derived noun immurement.
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