English Explanatory Dictionary

immure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
  2. To put or bury within a wall.
  3. To wall in.
  4. To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
noun
  1. A wall; an enclosure.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/ En-us-immure.ogg

Word forms

immure immures immuring immured emure

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.

Synonyms

cloister confine hem up imprison incarcerate inter

Related words

immurement

Derived words

bioimmure immured
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on I Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary