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bricking off

bricking off is the present participle and gerund of brick off.

Meaning of brick off

Verb

brick off (third-person singular simple present bricks off, present participle bricking off, simple past and past participle bricked off)

  1. (transitive) To put a barrier around, or to form a barrier around, with bricks.
    • Near-synonyms: box off, fence off
    Synonyms:
    box off, fence off

Questions about bricking off

What is bricking off the present participle and gerund of?
Bricking off is the present participle and gerund of brick off.

Words near bricking off in the dictionary

  1. brickiest
  2. brickiness
  3. bricking
  4. bricking in
  5. bricking it
  6. bricking off
  7. bricking oneself
  8. bricking over
  9. bricking up
  10. brickings
  11. brickish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bricking off (page history and authors); brick off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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