immure
pronunciation
How to pronounce immure in British English:
UK [ɪˈmjʊə(r)]
How to pronounce immure in American English:
US [ɪˈmjʊr]
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- Verb:
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Word Origin
- immure
- immure: see mural
- immure (v.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Perhaps we could simply ...... immure her .
- 2. To enclose within a wall ; immure .
- 3. Some tribes immure girls in the dark from the age of ten to the age of seventeen , for fear that the sun 's rays should render them pregnant .