Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immure

/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
im-mure
IPA
/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

Transitive verb

verb

To put or bury within a wall.

Transitive verb

verb

To wall in.

verb

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

Transitive verb

noun

A wall; an enclosure.

Obsolete

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Etymology

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: enmuren, emmurer, enmurer, immūrō

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Questions

How do you pronounce immure?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/.
What does immure mean?
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
Where does immure come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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