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# immure

verb (immure, immures, immured, immuring)

«immure» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal, old) To shut someone up in a prison or a closed place, as if behind walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#m1)
2. To shut yourself away from other people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#m2)

### In the lessons

A rare, bookish word for being imprisoned or shut away: «immured in a dungeon». In The Wind in the Willows Toad is immured in the deepest dungeon of the oldest castle in England for stealing a motor-car. In history stories, people were sometimes walled up as punishment.

### Examples

- Toad was immured in the darkest dungeon of the castle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x1)
- The prisoner was immured in a tiny cell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x2)
- The writer immured herself in her room to finish her book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x3)
- In the legend, the princess was immured in a tower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x4)
- He felt immured in the dull office all day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x5)
- In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/#x6)

### Note

Formal and rare; pronounced i-MYOOR. From Latin «murus», wall (compare «mural», a wall painting). Today say «lock up», «imprison» or «shut away».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «immure» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immure/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«immure» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/immure.html) on Mova free.