verb
- to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison or shut up
Usage: past tense and past participle of ‘immure’; formal
Examples
- The prisoner was immured in a dark cell for years.
- She felt immured in her small apartment during the lockdown.
- The ancient treasure was immured behind thick stone walls.
- He immured himself in his study to finish writing the novel.
- The monks were immured in their monastery, rarely venturing outside.
- The documents were immured in a vault for safekeeping.