immure Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; gaol; jail; put away; imprison; put behind bars.
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.

imperfect & past participle Immured ; present participle & verbal noun Immuring

To wall around; to surround with walls. Obs. Sandys.
To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak.

This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.