What is another word for immure?

Pronunciation: [ɪmjˈʊ͡ə] (IPA)

The word "immure" means to confine someone within a space or place, especially against their will. Some common synonyms for this word include incarcerate, imprison, lock up, confine, and detain. Other similar words that can be used interchangeably with "immure" include seclude, isolate, trap, enclose, and surround. Depending on the context and the degree of confinement involved, alternative words such as quarantine, intern, internment, and detention are also relevant. In general, the synonyms for "immure" all refer to the act of restricting someone's freedom of movement or ability to leave a particular area or space.

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What are the hypernyms for Immure?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for immure?

Immure refers to confining someone or something within walls or a space. The antonyms for the word immure are 'free', 'liberate', and 'release'. When someone is not immured, they are allowed to move freely and are not restricted or confined. Liberating someone means freeing them from captivity, and release means to set someone free. Antonyms for immure also include 'unshackle' and 'untie' which are terms used to describe freeing someone from bonds or ties. By using these antonyms, we can create sentences that convey the opposite meaning and help in avoiding mistakes while writing.

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Usage examples for Immure

So this haughty patrician would rather consign his child to splendid misery in the arms of a man she abhors, leading her too probably to vice and disgrace, or would immure her within the profane walls of a convent, than see her wedded to one she loves, because his fortune does not equal what he, in his vanity, considers necessary to support her in grandeur equal to her rank.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
He was maturing a plan to immure her in an Asylum in Massachusetts, and for that purpose was ready to start on the Thursday before the writ was sued out, when his plan was disclosed to Mrs. Packard by a letter he accidentally dropped in her room, written by his sister in Massachusetts, telling him the route he should take, and that a carriage would be ready at the station to put her in and convey her to the Asylum.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
After having aided her husband for twenty-one years, by her most indefatigable exertions, to secure for themselves a home, with all its clustering comforts, he, with no cause, except a difference in religious opinions, exiled her from her home, by forcing her into Jacksonville Insane Asylum, where he hoped to immure her for life, or until she would abandon what he calls her 'insane notions.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

Famous quotes with Immure

  • is to run after insecurity, to be for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition
    Emil Cioran

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