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sealed off

sealed off is the simple past and past participle of seal off.

Meaning of seal off

Verb

seal off (third-person singular simple present seals off, present participle sealing off, simple past and past participle sealed off)

  1. (transitive) To physically isolate an area or building for security reasons preventing passage of humans or vehicles.
    • Police sealed off the building following an anonymous bomb warning.

Questions about sealed off

What is sealed off the simple past and past participle of?
Sealed off is the simple past and past participle of seal off.

Words near sealed off in the dictionary

  1. sealed beam
  2. sealed beams
  3. sealed bid
  4. sealed bids
  5. sealed in
  6. sealed off
  7. sealed someone's fate
  8. sealed source
  9. sealed sources
  10. sealed system
  11. sealed systems

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sealed off (page history and authors); seal 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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