2023-03-28 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด I – Immured - inured

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Immured = ‘ih-MYOOR’

ออกเสียง inured = ‘in-YOOR’ or ‘ih-NOOR’

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Immured & inured

Immured means 

“confined” “shut in” “imprisoned” or “enclosed”: 

“The flower beds were Immured between gravel walks.” 

“A country boy, he felt Immured in his small room in the city.”

Inured (which may also be spelled enured) means 

“accustomed,” “habituated.” 

“hardened by exercise or custom”: 

“His rugged early in life inures him to labor and pain.” 

“Recruits quickly become inured to the rigors of army life.” 

“In later life, the benefits of social security inured to him and his family.”

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Did You Know?

Like "mural," "immure" comes from "murus," 

a Latin noun that means "wall." "Immurare," 

a Medieval Latin verb, was formed 

from "murus" and the prefix in- (meaning "in" or "within"). 

"Immure," which first appeared in English 

in the late 16th century, 

literally means "to wall in" or "to enclose with a wall,"

but it has extended meanings as well. 

In addition to senses meaning 

"imprison" and "entomb," 

the word sometimes has broader applications, 

essentially meaning "to shut in" or "to confine.”

" One might remark, for example, 

that a very studious acquaintance 

spends most of her time "immured in the library" 

or that a withdrawn teenager 

"immures himself in his bedroom every night."