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
Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“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 connection with the convent in which she was immured, I did not see her for three months following.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
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