Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immured

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables: im-mured
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of immure

adj

imprisoned or confined.

adj

buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).

adj

adj

trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).

Example Sentences

"Pompeians were packed inside defensive walls, and they came and went through gates—the Herculaneum Gate, the Vesuvius Gate, the Water Gate. Vestmann islanders, while clustered, were immured by nothing but the sea, and they came and went through their famous harbor."

Etymology

See etymology at immure.

Inflected Forms

more immured (comparative) most immured (superlative)

Derived Forms

unimmured

Questions

What does immured mean?: simple past and past participle of immure
Where does immured come from?: See etymology at immure.

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