0 to put someone inside something such as a prison or tomb (= a place where dead bodies are buried) and keep them there:
One innocent man was condemned on that account and was immured in a fortress until a true culprit admitted his guilt to a confessor 32 years later.
I say that to immure a man for one fifth of his adult life for such offences is worse than transportation.
I do not imagine that women will be ready to immure themselves in a special institution for the purpose of having their hair dressed.
There is immured in a windowless cell, a prisoner who has lived there in solitary confinement since birth.
She does this in order to demonstrate the ways in which poetic language is always already implicated in the political and can therefore never be wholly immured in aestheticism.
Spiritually, they are like men immured in darkness who come out blinking in a strong light.
One is that solicitors are not always immured in their offices—there is a respectable sprinkling of them here this evening.
We would not be immuring the standards in the walls of a building one hundred years old.
