to enclose within walls , imprision or seclude and confine
to build into
this word can be found the epic poetry antigone
The jail is immured.
She offered to immure herself in her room without dinner
praying of Daniel the immured
Immure is to hold someone against their will. You can use this in a sentence by saying her mother was immured into a hospital.
She offered to immure herself in her room without dinner
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Fortunato is tricked by Montresor into following him into the catacombs, where he is ultimately immured alive in a tiny niche as revenge for an unnamed insult.
It means to seal up behind a wall. Usually not in the sense found in Poe's Cask of Amontillado, more in the sense of someone who goes into a building and never comes out. E.g. "After the Byzantine empress was deposed, she was immured in a convent."
purity, surety, impurity, obscurity, security, immaturity, insecurity
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 7 words with the pattern I-M--E-. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter I and 3rd letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: immewed immixed immixes immunes immured immures inmates
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern IMMU---. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter I and 2nd letter M and 3rd letter M and 4th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are: immunes immured immures
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 5 words with the pattern I---RED. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter I and 5th letter R and 6th letter E and 7th letter D. In alphabetical order, they are: ignored immured inhered injured insured