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Is immure a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word immure is a Scrabble US word. The word immure is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is immure a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word immure is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

I1M3M3U1R1E1

Is immure a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word immure is a Words With Friends word. The word immure is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

IMMURE,

5-letter words (1 found)

MIMER,

4-letter words (11 found)

EMIR,IURE,MERI,MIME,MIRE,MUIR,MURE,RIEM,RIME,RIMU,RUME,

3-letter words (16 found)

EMU,ERM,IRE,MEM,MEU,MIM,MIR,MUM,REI,REM,RIM,RUE,RUM,UME,UMM,URE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EM,ER,ME,MI,MM,MU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 39 words from immure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of immure

immure

Etymology

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

  1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
    • 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:
      This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
  2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
    John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  3. To wall in.
  4. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To 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 {\displaystyle v} rises sharply.

Synonyms

  • (imprison): cloister, confine, hem up, imprison, incarcerate
  • (bury): inter

Derived terms

  • immured

Related terms

  • immurement

Translations

Noun

immure (plural immures)

  1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Alternative forms

  • emure

Source: wiktionary.org