Synonyms for immure

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ih-myoo r

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmyʊər

Définition of immure

Origin : 1580s, from Middle French emmurer and directly from Medieval Latin immurare, literally "to shut up within walls," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + Latin murus "wall" (see mural). Related: Immured; immuring.

verb confine

Example sentences :

"Load them with heavy fetters and immure them in a dungeon," said Governor Jefferson.
Extract from : « The Conquest » by Eva Emery Dye

He did not immure himself, or cut himself off from human companionship.
Extract from : « Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose » by Various

You, who are so gay, so full of life and health and exuberant spirits, immure yourself in a cloister!
Extract from : « Which? » by Ernest Daudet

The Resurrection Man entered first, and advanced into the middle of a small arched cell—a stone tomb, built to immure the living!
Extract from : « The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 » by George W. M. Reynolds

It never forged a chain to bind a heretic or an adversary, nor erected a prison to immure him.
Extract from : « The Sheepfold and the Common, Vol. II (of 2) » by Timothy East

Such a trick of fate, to take a man of important affairs, and immure him at the mercy of a maniac in a God-forsaken coal-town!
Extract from : « King Coal » by Upton Sinclair

It was customary at that period to immure prisoners in solitary confinement.
Extract from : « History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I » by Myers Gustavus

Kings themselves were wont thus to immure the wives and daughters of defeated rebels.
Extract from : « Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 » by Eileen Edna Power

The Eastern monarch may immure himself in his harem, casting the burdens of state upon the shoulders of a grand vizier.
Extract from : « The New World of Islam » by Lothrop Stoddard

Have they not forced him to immure himself here in the hills, when he should by rights be reigning in Rome?
Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea

Antonyms for immure

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