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wall up

wall up verb: to seal with a wall.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To seal with a wall.
    • They walled up the basement space that had been used as a coal bin.

Forms of wall up

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

Questions about wall up

What does wall up mean?
Wall up means to seal with a wall.
What part of speech is wall up?
Wall up is a verb.
What is the past tense of wall up?
The past tense of wall up is walled up.

Words near wall up in the dictionary

  1. wall time
  2. wall tower
  3. wall towers
  4. wall unit
  5. wall units
  6. wall up
  7. wall walk
  8. wall walks
  9. wall wart
  10. wall warts
  11. wall-clock time

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