Immure
Immure [ i-MYOO’ R ] | |
[ transitive verb ] | |
MEANING : | |
1. to surround or enclose within walls; imprison 2. to build into or entomb in wall | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | |
The dreaded terrorist was immured in a high security prison. | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | |
True, there was a Mughal emperor in Delhi until 1857, but he was emperor in name only, the shadow of a memory, described by Lord Macaulay as 'a mock sovereign immured in a gorgeous state prison'. |
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