WALL IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wall in mean? 

• WALL IN (verb)
  The verb WALL IN has 1 sense:

1. enclose with a wall

  Familiarity information: WALL IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALL IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose with a wall

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

wall in; wall up

Hypernyms (to "wall in" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wall in"):

brick in; brick over; brick up (wall up with brick)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a peptide secreted by the atrial wall in response to increased atrial pressure such as occurs during cardiac failure and to be decreased by myocardial infarction.

(Corticosteroid Cardioprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

“This way, Watson,” said he, “we can scale the garden wall in this direction.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Solitary lesions of bone that typically cause a bulging of the overlying cortex bearing some resemblance to the saccular protrusion of the aortic wall in aortic aneurysm, hence the name.

(Aneurysmal Bone Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The new species, named Rukwatitan bisepultus, was first spotted embedded in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

A mixed exocrine and endocrine gland situated transversely across the posterior abdominal wall in the epigastric and hypochondriac regions.

(Murine Pancreas, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg! Such a very natural action, too, if you come to think of it.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)