Definition of Immure

1. Verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. "They want to immure the prisoners "; "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

Exact synonyms: Gaol, Imprison, Incarcerate, Jail, Jug, Lag, Put Away, Put Behind Bars, Remand
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Confine, Detain
Derivative terms: Gaol, Gaoler, Immurement, Imprisonment, Imprisonment, Incarceration, Jail, Jailer, Jailor, Remand

Definition of Immure

1. v. t. To wall around; to surround with walls.

2. n. A wall; an inclosure.

Definition of Immure

1. Verb. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive crystallography and geology of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); (non-gloss definition chiefly in the participial adjective (term immured) and gerund or gerundial noun (term immuring).) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immure

1. to imprison [v -MURED, -MURING, -MURES] - See also: imprison

Medical Definition of Immure

1. 1. To wall around; to surround with walls. 2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. "Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls." (Shak) "This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round." (Milton) Origin: Pref. Im- in + mure: cf. F. Emmurer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immure

immunotolerant
immunotoxic
immunotoxicity
immunotoxicologist
immunotoxicologists
immunotoxicology
immunotoxin
immunotoxins
immunotransfusion
immunotronics
immunoturbidimetric
immunotype
immunotypes
immunotypic
immunotyping
immure (current term)
immured
immurement
immurements
immures
immuring
immusical
immutabilities
immutability
immutable
immutableness
immutablenesses
immutables
immutably
immutation

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