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simple past and past participle of immure examples
comparative more immured, superlative most immured
imprisoned or confined. examples
buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive). examples
walled in. quotations examples
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.
1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, pages 118–119
(crystallography and geology, of impurities in a growing crystal) trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).