Word Meanings - IMMURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To wall around; to surround with walls. Sandys. 2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire,

Additional info about word: IMMURE

Etym: 1. To wall around; to surround with walls. Sandys. 2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMMURE)

• Cage
• Imprison
• immure
• confine
• incarcerate
• cabin
• crib
• Confine
• Immure
• limit
• bound
• imprison
• circumscribe
• restrict
• enclose
• narrow
• bind
• shut up
• Incarcerate
• Intomb
• Inter
• bury
• inhume

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMMURE)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble

Related words: (words related to IMMURE)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• HOBBLER
  One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERIM
  A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics. (more info) 1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• INTERHEMAL; INTERHAEMAL
  Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• INTERDUCE
  An intertie.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately