immure

1. 1.

   lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”

   “the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life”

   Synonymsimprisonincarceratelagput behind barsjailjuggaolput awayremand

   Broaderconfine

   law

Other forms of immure

past tense

immured·

present participle

immuring·

third person

immures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immure

What does immure mean?

immure means "lock up or confine, in or as in a jail".

How many syllables are in immure?

immure has 2 syllables: im-mure. The stress falls on "mure".

What is another word for immure?

Close synonyms include imprison, incarcerate, lag, put behind bars, jail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immure a common word?

immure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.