immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
immuring
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present participleof immure.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you've been immuring yourself, as you have on your own confession, for some two months, or more, an afternoon with good company is indispensable.
From The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
And there is something so disturbingly immuring and depersonalizing about it!
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
To think of immuring such a fair creature within the dull walls of a cloister!”
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
