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WALL UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wall up mean?
• WALL UP (verb)
The verb WALL UP has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: WALL UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose with a wall
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
wall in; wall up
Hypernyms (to "wall up" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wall up"):
brick in; brick over; brick up (wall up with brick)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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