Synonyms of immuring

immuring

verb

present participle of immure

1

as in housing

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

scientists at the research station in Alaska are immured by the frozen wastelands that surround them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• surrounding
• including
• encasing
• enclosing
• confining
• boxing (in)
• inclosing
• hemming (in)
• mewing (up)
• fencing (in)
• walling (in)
• encaging
• penning
• caging
• cooping (up)
• enveloping
• hedging
• closeting
• restricting
• bounding
• containing
• corralling
• limiting
• encompassing
• enlacing
• circumscribing
• encircling
• enframing
• ringing
• encysting
• encapsuling
• enfolding
• encapsulating
• ensphering
• ensheathing
• framing
• armoring
• enwombing
• cocooning

2

as in imprisoning

to put in or as if in prison

immured by a controlling, possessive mother, the young woman had no outside social life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imprisoning
• interning
• jailing
• incarcerating
• locking (up)
• confining
• committing
• detaining
• restraining
• arresting
• jugging
• catching
• restricting
• limiting
• shutting
• capturing
• constraining
• apprehending
• gating
• binding
• barring
• seizing
• picking up
• trammelling
• keeping
• holding
• impressing
• pinching
• manacling
• impounding
• shanghaiing
• busting
• nabbing
• handcuffing
• trammeling
• enchaining
• fettering
• shackling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• freeing
• discharging
• liberating
• releasing
• enfranchising
• emancipating
• manumitting
• unfettering
• unbinding
• unchaining
• uncaging