sealed
/siːld/
sealed is the simple past and past participle of seal.
Adjective
sealed (not comparable)
- Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to...2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
- Preventing entrance.
- Synonyms:
- impermeable
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Meaning of seal
Verb (1)
seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)
- To hunt seals.
- They're organizing a protest against sealing.
Verb (2)
seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)
- To place a seal on (a document).
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- to seal weights and measures
- To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
- The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.
- To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
- The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.
- To close securely to prevent leakage.
- I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.
Synonyms of sealed
Words formed from sealed
- heat-sealed
- hermetically sealed
- keep one's lips sealed
- my lips are sealed
- nonsealed
- presealed
- sealed battery
- sealed beam
- sealed-beam headlight
- sealed bearing
- sealed bid
- sealed book
- sealed cabin
- sealed crustless sandwich
- sealed earth
- sealed indictment
- sealed instrument
- sealed jar technique
- Sealed Knot
- sealed off
- sealed-off
- sealed orders
- sealed pattern
- sealed porter
- sealed record
- sealed refrigeration compressor
- sealed room
- sealed round
- sealed second-price auction
- sealed server
- sealed source
- sealed system
- sealed unit
- sealed verdict
- signed, sealed and delivered
- tar-sealed
- unsealed
Phrases with sealed
Words that rhyme with sealed
Questions about sealed
- What does sealed mean?
- Sealed means closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- What is sealed the simple past and past participle of?
- Sealed is the simple past and past participle of seal.
- What part of speech is sealed?
- Sealed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sealed?
- Sealed is pronounced /siːld/.
Words near sealed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sealed (page history and authors); seal (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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