transitive verb. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.

transitive verb. To build into a wall.

transitive verb. To entomb in a wall.

To surround with walls; wall; fortify; protect.

To inclose within walls; hence, to shut up or confine, in general.

noun. An inclosure; a wall.

To build into a wall; imbed in masonry.

noun. A wall; an inclosure.

transitive verb. To wall around; to surround with walls.

transitive verb. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

verb. To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

verb. To put or bury within a wall.

verb. To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

noun. A wall; an enclosure.

verb. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

"Higden having had the imprudence, in his grief, to make known his recent misfortune, it had reached the ears of his landlord, who already was watchful and suspicious, from a year and half arrears of his rent; and steps were immediately preparing to seize whatever was upon the premises the next morning; which, by bringing upon him all his other creditors, would infallibly immure him in the lingering hopelessness of a prison."

immurement  inter  

confine  detain  

bastille  bolt in  bottle up  box in  box up  

immured  immures  immuring