Immured

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Definitions and meanings of "Immured"

What do we mean by immured?

To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

To put or bury within a wall.

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

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The word "immured" in example sentences

As I passed over them something drew me to descend, not that I so desired, but that the collective magnetic forces of the human beings therein immured, deprived me not only of the power, but, in a great degree, of the disposition to resist. ❋ Unknown (1870)

I "immured" myself far away from the scene of turmoil and strife, and was happy so long as I kept my eyes on my books and manuscripts. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

Now, in "The Sense of an Ending," Tony, who repeatedly refers to his "instinct for self-preservation," seems to have immured himself in a fortress of bourgeois dullness in order to avoid glimpsing that abyss. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit, means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They who immured me for petty years gave to me, all unwittingly, the largess of the centuries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's hot as hell and apparently these immured souls, like something out of Endgame, depend on the kindness of visitors to get hydrated. ❋ Erica Abeel (2011)

The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron The speaker is immured in a dungeon whose walls plunge below the surface of Lake Geneva. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We can never underestimate the amount of ideas that are immured within our minds, waiting to break free. ❋ Cody Pomeranz (2011)

The Bear Boy struggles to climb out of what Thomas Mann called "the well of the past," the past that has immured him in an imaginary childhood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And sinking back into delirium, I would take the idea with me and be immured in madhouses, and be beaten by keepers, and surrounded by screeching lunatics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But by the end, Hodge moves one with his image of a man as trapped and immured as any Beckett hero. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But I think Sobel misses an opportunity to reflect on the life prospects of women like Galileo's daughters, immured in the Poor Clares convent in their early teens - and their mother, who bore the scientist three children before marrying someone else. ❋ Nwhyte (2009)

This lady died; but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia, and being immured within the walls of a haram, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or were these memories of other times and places still residual, asleep, immured in solitary in brain cells similarly to the way I was immured in a cell in San Quentin? ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are the only ones here on a Wednesday morning and it adds to the atmosphere of almost being immured in the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Further, last night, upon returning from London, I grasped to my infinite annoyance that it can take much longer to crawlacross the Borough of Queens, immured indense traffic between John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough), than it takes to travel by train from Paris to Calais. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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