Question

immure In Dumas's famous novel, the Count of Monte Cristo is in fact a sailor who had been unjustly immured in an island prison for 15 years before breaking out and taking his revenge. immure*

Accepted Answer

To enclose within, or as if within, walls; imprison. In Eastern European legend, whenever a large bridge or fort was completed, a young maiden would be immured in the stonework as a sacrifice. (It's not certain that such things were actually done.) In Poe's grim story “A Cask of Amontillado,” a man achieves revenge on a fellow nobleman by chaining him to a cellar wall and bricking him up alive. At the end of Verdi's great opera Aida, Aida joins her lover so that they can die immured together. But real-life examples of immurement as a final punishment are somewhat harder to find.

word	immure
definition	To enclose within, or as if within, walls; imprison.
eg_sentence	In Dumas's famous novel, the Count of Monte Cristo is in fact a sailor who had been unjustly immured in an island prison for 15 years before breaking out and taking his revenge.
explanation	In Eastern European legend, whenever a large bridge or fort was completed, a young maiden would be immured in the stonework as a sacrifice. (It's not certain that such things were actually done.) In Poe's grim story “A Cask of Amontillado,” a man achieves revenge on a fellow nobleman by chaining him to a cellar wall and bricking him up alive. At the end of Verdi's great opera Aida, Aida joins her lover so that they can die immured together. But real-life examples of immurement as a final punishment are somewhat harder to find.
IPA	immure*

Immured Immure Enclose Walls Imprison Dumas's Famous Count