Definitions for immures

immures im·mure

Spelling: [ih-myoo r]
IPA: /ɪˈmyʊər/

Immures is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in immures (eimmrsu).

Definitions for immures

verb (used with object)

  1. to enclose within walls.
  2. to shut in; seclude or confine.
  3. to imprison.
  4. to build into or entomb in a wall.
  5. Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.

Origin of immures

1575-85; Medieval Latin immūrāre, equivalent to Latin im- im-1 + -mūrāre, verbal derivative of mūrus wall (cf. Examples for immures

You, who are so gay, so full of life and health and exuberant spirits, immure yourself in a cloister!

The Eastern monarch may immure himself in his harem, casting the burdens of state upon the shoulders of a grand vizier.

Have they not forced him to immure himself here in the hills, when he should by rights be reigning in Rome?

Such a trick of fate, to take a man of important affairs, and immure him at the mercy of a maniac in a God-forsaken coal-town!

He did not immure himself, or cut himself off from human companionship.

It was customary at that period to immure prisoners in solitary confinement.

The Resurrection Man entered first, and advanced into the middle of a small arched cell—a stone tomb, built to immure the living!

It never forged a chain to bind a heretic or an adversary, nor erected a prison to immure him.

"Load them with heavy fetters and immure them in a dungeon," said Governor Jefferson.

Kings themselves were wont thus to immure the wives and daughters of defeated rebels.

Word Value for immures
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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