immured
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Abandoned by or cut off from their families, they are immured in lonely old age, waiting with restless resignation as the hours of their lives wind down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland’s Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
Such findings remain mostly immured in the academy, however.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2019
Having no clerical connection with the convent in which she was immured, I had not seen her for three months following.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
