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Immure

verb

(past & past part. immured; pres. part. immuring)

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand. "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

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"Immure" Quotes from Famous Books

... poverty. They may put limits to their washing-bills, which persons of cleanlier habits would consider unpleasantly narrow; they may eat cold mutton in private for five days a week in order to eat turtle and venison in public (and with the air of eating them every day) on the sixth; and they may immure themselves in their back rooms in London throughout the autumn in order to persuade folks that they are still at Trouville, where for ten days they did really reside and in splendour; but all their stint and self-incarceration, so far from awakening pity, only fill us with contempt. I ...

— Some Private Views • James Payn

Words linked to "Immure" : confine, detain, law, jail, jurisprudence