verb
- confining or imprisoning someone within walls; shutting up or enclosing
Usage: present participle of immure; formal
Examples
- The tyrant was immuring his political enemies in the castle dungeon.
- She felt as though her parents were immuring her in the house.
- The ancient practice of immuring criminals was considered barbaric.
- He spent years immuring himself in his study to write the novel.
- The monastery walls seemed to be immuring the monks from the outside world.
- They were immuring the treasure behind a false wall.