immure

/ɪmjˈʊə/

/ɪmjˈʊɹ/

[verb]

to immure

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to take a person or thing to a confined space and trap them there

synonyms : gaol

Examples

1. Omar Sharif, right, and the beautiful Julie Christie are in this house, immured in snow and ice.

2. They are believed to belong to workers who were condemned to death by being immured in the walls.

3. They are believed to belong to workers who were condemned to death by being immured in the walls.

4. Even worse, the sacrificed people - many of them children - were rumoured to have been immured in the walls, meaning they were entombed within the foundations while they were alive, and slowly died from lack of food and water after the walls had been bricked up.