immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
had immured
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past perfectof immure.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Death was, it said, of so little consequence to the walls which had immured and conquered life itself.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
What blundering, ferocious god of cruelty had immured in the dungeon of poverty this soul of his that so overflowed with desires?
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France
His manners too!—could any thing be more captivating than the manners of this uninformed son of nature, whom cruelty and injustice had immured in the dungeons of her father's castle!
From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Elizabeth Bonhote
At last a plan was devised to introduce him into the fortress and he was summoned to the prison where they had immured the innocent.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
She had immured herself, behind curtained windows and to the light of waxen tapers led the life of a mystic, also smoked the blackest of cigars.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
