Immured: meaning, definitions and examples

being trapped

To immure means to confine someone or something within walls or to imprison them. This term is often used in a figurative sense to describe a state of being isolated or shut away from the outside world. The concept of being immured carries a connotation of being trapped in a limited or oppressive space, whether physically or metaphorically. Historically, it may refer to the practice of walling up a person in a tomb or dungeon as a form of punishment or sacrifice.

confine, enclose, entrap, immure.

Examples of usage

• The political dissident was immured in a remote prison.

• She felt immured by her responsibilities and lacked freedom.

• The ancient texts spoke of heroes who were immured within the castle.

• The children felt immured in the small classroom.

• He immured his feelings, refusing to express his emotions.