immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
immures
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present tense formof immure (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
I didn't know anybody could escape from that awful sort of prison-house in which our—I'm English now—in which our upper class immures itself.
From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
From the humanist point of view, it immures the mind in the study of remote epochs and past civilisations, and does nothing to prepare the pupil for the fulfilment of contemporary duties.
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
No trophy this—a Stone unhewn, And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won.
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville
This is the cloister Where he immures me—Naples' gayest revels; The only bar wherewith he hedges me Is his unbounded trust, that leaves me free.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
