immure | Definition of immure

Synonyms and Antonyms of immure

1 to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

scientists at the research station in Alaska are immured by the frozen wastelands that surround them

Synonyms of immure

box (in), cage, closet, coop (up), corral, encage, encase, enclose (also inclose), envelop, fence (in), hedge, hem (in), house, include, mew (up), pen, wall (in)

Words Related to immure

bound, circumscribe, confine, contain, limit, restrict

encircle, encompass, enfold, enframe, enlace, frame, ring, surround

armor, cocoon, encapsulate, encapsule, encyst, ensheathe, ensphere, enwomb

2 to put in or as if in prison

immured by a controlling, possessive mother, the young woman had no outside social life

Synonyms of immure

commit, confine, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, jug, lock (up)

Words Related to immure

constrain, limit, restrain, restrict, shut

apprehend, arrest, bust [slang], capture, catch, detain, nab, pick up, pinch, seize

impress, shanghai

hold, impound, keep

bind, enchain, fetter, handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel

Near Antonyms of immure

emancipate, enfranchise, manumit, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

Antonyms of immure

discharge, free, liberate, release