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immure

[ ih-myoor ]

verb (used with object)

immured, immuring.
  1. to enclose within walls.
  2. to shut in; seclude or confine.
  3. to imprison.
  4. to build into or entomb in a wall.
  5. Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.


immure

/ ɪˈʊə /

verb

  1. archaic.
    to enclose within or as if within walls; imprison
  2. to shut (oneself) away from society
  3. obsolete.
    to build into or enclose within a wall
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܰ𳾱Գ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ܰmԳ ···پDz [im-y, uh, -, rey, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • self-·ܰmԳ noun
  • -·ܰiԲ adjective
  • ܲi·ܰ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of immure1

1575–85; < Medieval Latin ū, equivalent to Latin im- im- 1 + -ū, verbal derivative of ūܲ wall ( mural )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of immure1

C16: from Medieval Latin ū, from Latin im- (in) + ūܲ a wall
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Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland’s Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.

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Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.

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Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water’s surface.

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More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”

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In the century or so since “The Great Gatsby” was published, we have been lost in Gatsby’s house, immured in a never-ending revival.

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