Definitions for immure

immure im·mure

Spelling: [ih-myoo r]
IPA: /ɪˈmyʊər/

Immure is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in immure (eimmru).

Definitions for immure

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 immure

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

Examples for immure

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for immure
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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