immurement

1. 1.

   the state of being imprisoned

   “he was held in captivity until he died”

   “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”

   “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”

   “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”

   Synonymscaptivityimprisonmentincarceration

   Broaderconfinement

   Narrowerdurancelife imprisonmentinternment

Other forms of immurement

plural

immurements·

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 immurement

What does immurement mean?

immurement means "the state of being imprisoned".

How many syllables are in immurement?

immurement has 4 syllables: im-mu-re-ment. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for immurement?

Close synonyms include captivity, imprisonment, incarceration. 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 immurement a common word?

immurement 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.