immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
immured
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past participleof immure.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof immure.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
immureverb (used with object)to enclose within walls.
Example Sentences
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Abandoned by or cut off from their families, they are immured in lonely old age, waiting with restless resignation as the hours of their lives wind down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland’s Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
“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
But it also sounds, marvelously, like a geographical location in which a character from a Paul Bowles novel might be immured.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 19, 2018
From the room where they were immured strange sounds occasionally escaped; sometimes Wheeler laughed and sometimes he swore furiously.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
