immure

Plural: immures

Verb

Verb Forms: immured, immuring, immures

To confine or imprison within walls; to enclose.
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
To put or bury within a wall.
To wall in.
To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

Noun

A wall; an enclosure.

Examples

John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
The opponent tried to immure the blank tile by placing letters around it, hoping to trap it.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand, cloister, confine, hem up, inter

Scrabble Score: 10

immure: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
immure: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
immure: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

immure: valid Words With Friends Word