immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
have immured
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present perfectof immure.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2019
You must admire no one but the person with whom you have immured yourself for life.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
Fair play demands that the women they have immured in a home have a prior claim to their company, in at least the majority of the leisure hours.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
Ah! if the poor child could have followed the impulses of her heart, she would have immured herself in one of those tranquil beaterios, to die there amid tears and prayer.
From The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love by Anne T. Wilbur
Or, if he had been in the possession of a proper bath of fusible metal, he would have attained the necessary certainty in his process, and need not have immured himself in a subterranean apartment.—PARKES'
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
