noun

1. A wall; an enclosure.

verb

1. To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

2. To put or bury within a wall.

   “John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.”

3. (of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

Synonyms: inter, cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate