Synonyms of immure

immure

verb

i-ˈmyu̇r 

1

as in to house

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

scientists at the research station in Alaska are immured by the frozen wastelands that surround them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• house
• confine
• encase
• enclose
• surround
• inclose
• include
• cage
• fence (in)
• encage
• pen
• closet
• box (in)
• wall (in)
• envelop
• hem (in)
• hedge
• coop (up)
• corral
• mew (up)
• bound
• restrict
• contain
• circumscribe
• limit
• encompass
• encircle
• enfold
• ring
• armor
• encapsulate
• encyst
• enlace
• enframe
• frame
• cocoon
• ensheathe
• enwomb
• encapsule
• ensphere

2

as in to jail

to put in or as if in prison

immured by a controlling, possessive mother, the young woman had no outside social life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jail
• imprison
• confine
• intern
• incarcerate
• detain
• commit
• restrain
• lock (up)
• arrest
• jug
• shut
• restrict
• catch
• constrain
• limit
• gate
• apprehend
• capture
• bind
• bar
• seize
• keep
• enchain
• impress
• impound
• hold
• pinch
• nab
• fetter
• shackle
• trammel
• shanghai
• bust
• pick up
• manacle
• handcuff

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberate
• free
• discharge
• release
• emancipate
• manumit
• enfranchise
• unchain
• unbind
• unfetter
• uncage

Examples of immure in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lying on the sofa, I became slowly immured in the concrete reality of this edifice and of its facts. —Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023

Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water’s surface. —John O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023

Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water's surface. —John O'Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023

The last slave had been immured within its walls, and St. Michael’s curfew was to be sweetest music thenceforth and forever. —Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018

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