immured

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of immure
2. adjective imprisoned or confined.
3. adjective buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
4. adjective walled in.
5. adjective trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).

Similar words

intermured pent captive incarcerate walled incaverned prison-bound caged cellbound ironed

Often followed by

in within for himself by and at herself with

Word family

immure immurement immurements immures immuring