immure

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
2. verb To put or bury within a wall.

   John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

3. verb To wall in.
4. verb To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
5. noun A wall; an enclosure.

Similar words

put away imprison incarcerate gaol jail jug remand lag put behind bars enmure

Often followed by

himself themselves herself the them him her a me myself

Word family

immured immurement immurements immures immuring