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wall off

wall off verb: to separate with a wall.

Verb

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

  1. To separate with a wall.
    • The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) To isolate completely.
    • Early protectionists tried to wall off the country from foreign trade.
    • 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

wall off meaning in Tamil

wall off in Tamil

விரிசல் பூச்சு

Forms of wall off

third-person singular presentwalls off
present participlewalling off
past participlewalled off
pastwalled off

Questions about wall off

What does wall off mean?
Wall off means to separate with a wall.
What is wall off in Tamil?
Wall off in Tamil is விரிசல் பூச்சு. See Wall off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wall off?
Wall off is a verb.
What is the past tense of wall off?
The past tense of wall off is walled off.

Words near wall off in the dictionary

  1. wall of galaxies
  2. wall of shame
  3. wall of silence
  4. wall of sound
  5. wall of text
  6. wall off
  7. wall paper
  8. wall pellitory
  9. wall pepper
  10. wall piece
  11. wall pieces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wall off (page history and authors); wall off (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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