wall off

verb

To separate with a wall.

“The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.”

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Meanings

verbwall off (third-person singular simple present walls off, present participle walling off, simple past and past participle walled off)

present singular third person walls off · participle present walling off · participle past walled off · past walled off

  1. To separate with a wall.

    The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.

  2. broadlyfigurativelyTo isolate completely.

    Early protectionists tried to wall off the country from foreign trade.

    1 more example

    Nationalist politics, walled off for decades by an artificial silence, have emerged practically unscathed from the ruins of Communism's enforced internationalism.

    1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times, section A, page 1

Translations

Italian separare con un muro
  • separare con un muroto separate with a wall
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