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BRICK IN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brick in mean?
• BRICK IN (verb)
The verb BRICK IN has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BRICK IN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wall up with brick
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
brick in; brick over; brick up
Hypernyms (to "brick in" is one way to...):
wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples
A walk of a few hundred yards brought us to the high building of discoloured brick in Piccadilly, which served the Hamiltons as a town house, and which Nelson used as his head-quarters when business or pleasure called him from Merton.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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