wall up

Verb

Meaning

enclose with a wall

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

wall in mount paper board wall brick adjust arrange fence confine enclose shut up mure wallpaper immure
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Antonyms

free allow release connector serve middle
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Hypernyms

enclose inclose close in shut in

Hyponyms

brick up brick in brick over

Examples

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more Or close the wall up with our English dead. William Shakespeare

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. John F. Kennedy

I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn't win. China Miéville

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. Jodi Picoult

He moved closer to the wall up there, past mounds of bodies, no line any more, just men moving forward at different speeds, stopping to fire, stopping to die, drifting back like leaves blown from the fire ahead. Michael Shaara

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. Jack Welch

Close letter words and terms

wall time wall tower wall unit wall walk wall wart Wall-beating