noun
Meaning 1
A wall; an enclosure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
immure
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
-
rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
verb
Meaning 2
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To put or bury within a wall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To wall in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: chemistry, crystallography, geography, geology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296, On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: imprison, incarcerate, lag, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: confine, detain
History
Etymology
From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զնդանել (zndanel) — to lock up behind walls
- Armenian: արգելափակել (argelapʻakel) — to lock up behind walls
- Chinese Mandarin: 監禁 /监禁 (jiānjìn) — to lock up behind walls
- Chinese Mandarin: 關押 /关押 (guānyā) — to lock up behind walls
- Dutch: opsluiten — to lock up behind walls
- Finnish: panna kiven sisään — to lock up behind walls
- French: emmurer — to lock up behind walls
- German: einkerkern — to lock up behind walls
- German: einsperren — to lock up behind walls
- Ido: enmurigar — to lock up behind walls
- Polish: zamurowywać — to lock up behind walls
- Polish: zamurować — to lock up behind walls
- Portuguese: emparedar — to lock up behind walls
- Russian: заточа́ть (zatočátʹ) — to lock up behind walls
- Russian: заточи́ть (zatočítʹ) — to lock up behind walls
- Spanish: encerrar — to lock up behind walls
- Armenian: որմնաշարել (ormnašarel) — to put or bury within a wall
- Chinese Mandarin: 埋藏 (máicáng) — to put or bury within a wall
- Chinese Mandarin: 埋葬 (máizàng) — to put or bury within a wall
- Chinese Mandarin: 活埋 (huómái) — to put or bury within a wall
- Dutch: inmetselen — to put or bury within a wall
- Finnish: muurata (sisään) — to put or bury within a wall
- Finnish: sulkea (sisään) — to put or bury within a wall
- French: emmurer — to put or bury within a wall
- German: einmauern — to put or bury within a wall
- Ido: enmurigar — to put or bury within a wall
- Portuguese: emparedar — to put or bury within a wall
- Russian: замуро́вывать (zamuróvyvatʹ) — to put or bury within a wall
- Russian: замурова́ть (zamurovátʹ) — to put or bury within a wall
- Spanish: emparedar — to put or bury within a wall
- Spanish: encerrar — to put or bury within a wall
- Swedish: mura in — to put or bury within a wall