Immure

Definition: Immure

Immure

Verb

1. Lock up in jail.

Date "immure" was first used: 1583. (references)

Synonyms: Immure

Synonyms: gaol (v), imprison (v), incarcerate (v), jail (v), jug (v), lag (v), put away (v), put behind bars (v), remand (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restraint	Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Immure

English words defined with "immure": Enmure ♦ Immured, Immuring ♦ Mure ♦ To be confined. (references)

"Immure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immure" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "immure": immure oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "immure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbyll brenda (coop, incase, shut in, snow in), burgos (imprison, incarcerate, quod, restrain, send up). (various references)

Arabic		‏حصر ضمن أسوار (mure), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏أحاطه بأسوار. (various references)

Bulgarian		вграждам (inwall), ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, pinch, qualify, reduce, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down, trammel), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), заобикалям като със стена. (various references)

Czech		uvìznit (confine, gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail). (various references)

French		emmurer. (various references)

German		einkerkern (dungeon, gaol, imprison, incarcerate, to dungeon, to imprison, to incarcerate). (various references)

Greek		περιτειχίζω (wall), φυλακίζω (cage, commit to prison, confine, coop up, gaol, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail), εγκλείω (confine, coop, corral, encapsulate, encase, enclose, enshrine, impound, inclose, pen). (various references)

Hebrew		לשים במעצר (incarcerate), לכלוא (corral, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lock up, put away, shut in), ל�'�"ור (fence, hedge). (various references)

Hungarian		bezár (close up, coop, encompass, incarcerate, lock, lock on, lock up, shut, shut in, shut up, to bolt in, to box in, to bung, to bung up, to cloister, to close, to close up, to enclose, to encompass, to fold up, to immure, to incarcerate, to latch, to mew, to pin, to shut down, to shut in). (various references)

Italian		imprigionare (confine, gaol, imprison, jail, put in prison, restrain, trap), rinchiudere (comprehend, confine, coop, enclose, inclose, include, lock up, put away, shut away, shut in). (various references)

Manx		boallaghey stiagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		immureay.(various references)

Portuguese		imunologia (immunology), enclausurar (cloister, enclosed, Inclosed, mew), encerrar entre paredes, emparedar. (various references)

Romanian		zidi (brick in, brick up, build, construct, create, embed, erect, wall), întemniţa (gaol, hold, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, lock up, pound, prison, secure). (various references)

Russian		заточать (mure), замуровывать (mure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, imprison, incarcerate, nab, pick up, pinch, pull in, quod, run in), opkoliti zidovima. (various references)

Spanish		encerrar (box up, carry, comprehend, confine, crate, encase, enclose, enshrine, ground, hem in, inclose, include, lock in, lock up, pen, pen in, pen up, shut, shut away, shut down, shut in, shut up), encarcelar (confine, gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lock up, prison, put away, quod, send down), emparedar (confine, wall, wall up). (various references)

Swedish		inspärra (cage, confine, shut up). (various references)

Turkish		hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up), duvara gömmek, duvar çekmek. (various references)

Ukranian		ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, pound, prison, quod), замуровувати (mure, wall up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	in-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "immure": immured, immurement, immurements, immures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Immure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amure, Imara, imare, Imari, immor, immue, immur, imrex, imu, imute, mimagree. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-m-r-u"
	-1 letter: mimer.
	-2 letters: emir, mime, mire, mure, rime.
	-3 letters: emu, ire, mem, mim, mir, mum, rei, rem, rim, rue, rum, umm.
	-4 letters: em, er, me, mi, mm, mu, re, um.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-m-r-u"
	+1 letter: crummie, fermium, gummier, immured, immures, premium, rummier, rummies, yummier.
	+2 letters: chummier, coremium, crummier, crummies, emporium, fermiums, immature, imperium, plummier, premiums, rummiest, scummier, slummier.
	+3 letters: americium, crummiest, emporiums, germanium, immatures, immixture, imperiums, midsummer, multigerm, mummeries, presummit, summaries, summarise, summarize, summerier, summering, summiteer, thrummier, untrimmed.
	+4 letters: amateurism, americiums, commissure, commixture, crumminess, euhemerism, flummeries, germaniums, immaturely, immixtures, immurement, maumetries, meitnerium, midsummers, multiarmed, neurilemma, osmeterium, paramecium, perimysium, promethium, rheumatism, spermatium, summarised, summarises, summarized, summarizer, summarizes, summeriest, summerlike, summertime, summiteers, summitries, thrummiest.
	+5 letters: amateurisms, bemurmuring, commissures, commixtures, consumerism, crematorium, endometrium, euhemerisms, hyperimmune, immurements, magisterium, meitneriums, multimember, neurilemmal, neurilemmas, parameciums, promethiums, resummoning, rheumatisms, sempervivum, summarizers, summertimes, suprematism, tautomerism, termitarium.
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