immure

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 and divides as im-mure under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.