verb
to put someone inside something such as a prison or tomb (= a place where dead bodies are buried) and keep them there:
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The aristocracy chose to immure its dead in church vaults or specially constructed mausoleums.-
The false uncle sealed the mouth of the underground chamber and immured Aladdin in the darkness.to keep someone or something within certain limits and prevent them or it from developing freely:
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Constantly imitating past masters does not take cooking any further forward - it immures it in history.verb
to shut somebody in a place so that they cannot get out
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be immured (+ adv./prep.) At the age of 86 he was immured in his house by infirmity.-
(figurative) a society immured in ignorance and superstitionverb
to enclose within or as if within walls
imprison
to build into a wall
to entomb in a wall
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