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To immure someone is to shut them in a place so they cannot get out, often as if behind walls. It is an old, word. You will meet it in history and stories more than in the street: a prisoner immured in a castle, or, in darker old tales, even up inside a wall. Though actually, writers also stretch it: someone immured in a room, or immured in work, is only shut away from the world, not bricked in. In ordinary talk we say lock in, shut in, or imprison. Keep this one for reading and for careful writing.
幽禁、囚禁（書面語；日常說「關起來」）
組成From Latin immuro: in- ('in, into') + murus ('wall') — to put someone inside walls. It came through Old French enmurer and Middle English enmuren; the modern spelling follows the Latin.
同家族的字
- muralsame Latin wall: a mural is a picture painted on a wall
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
immureverb/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
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To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
- [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
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To put or bury within a wall.
- John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
- The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.
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To wall in.
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chemistrycrystallographygeographyTo trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
- 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296, On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.
immurenoun/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
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obsoleteA wall; an enclosure.
- […]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。