walled

[ wawld ]

/ wɔld /

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adjective

having walls (sometimes used in combination): a high-walled prison.

enclosed or fortified with a wall: a walled village.

Origin of walled

before 1000; Middle English; Old English geweallod; see wall, -ed², -ed³

Words nearby walled

wallah, wallaroo, wallasey, wallboard, wallcovering, walled, walled plain, wallenberg, wallenda, wallensis, wallenstein

Definition for walled (2 of 2)

wall

[ wawl ]

/ wɔl /

noun

any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.

Usually walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.

an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.

a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.

an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.

the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.

Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.

Mining.

the side of a level or drift.
the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.

adjective

of or relating to a wall: wall space.

growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress.

situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.

verb (used with object)

to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.

to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.

to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.

Origin of wall

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all < Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post; see wale¹; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

SYNONYMS FOR wall

2 battlement, breastwork, bulwark, barrier, bastion.

5 dike.

14 immure.

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OTHER WORDS FROM wall

wall-less, adjective wall-like, adjective un·wall, verb (used with object)

Example sentences from the Web for walled

Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal.

Did the Vatican Arrest an Abuser to Protect Him? |Barbie Latza Nadeau |September 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Too many of us, not just celebrities, are too walled off from the real-life experience of warriors, including our own.

Gwyneth Was Right: America Turned Communication Into a Weaponized Battlefield |James Poulos |June 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I told her to let it loose in the walled garden behind the house, and opened my letter.

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In 2005, they all moved to Abbottabad and settled into a walled compound for the next six years.

Bin Laden’s Life on the Run, Witnessed by Al Qaeda Child Bride |Michael Daly |July 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

So he was taken from his farmhouse and placed under arrest at a police facility, walled off from visitors and social media.

Welcome to the Pervez Musharraf Show |Adnan Siddiqi |April 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Fortunately, the part of the road where we were was walled on one side, while the other bank was sloping.

My Friend Smith |Talbot Baines Reed
The room in which the Emperor died is sealed and walled up, and the palace is now converted into a school of engineers.

A Journey in Russia in 1858 |Robert Heywood
They will be walled off, as soon as I am free of the police.

The Widow Lerouge |Emile Gaboriau
Sixtus V. had the chamber in which the urn was placed opened, but found it empty, and it has now been walled up.

Old Rome |Robert Burn
Is more to see; and I 'm smothered here, walled in with my cousin.

Long Will |Florence Converse

British Dictionary definitions for walled

wall

/ (wɔːl) /

noun

a vertical construction made of stone, brick, wood, etc, with a length and height much greater than its thickness, used to enclose, divide, or support
(as modifier)wall hangings Related adjective: mural

(often plural) a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes

anatomy any lining, membrane, or investing part that encloses or bounds a bodily cavity or structure abdominal wall Technical name: paries Related adjective: parietal

mountaineering a vertical or almost vertical smooth rock face

anything that suggests a wall in function or effect a wall of fire; a wall of prejudice

bang one's head against a brick wall to try to achieve something impossible

drive to the wall or push to the wall to force into an awkward situation

go to the wall to be ruined; collapse financially

drive up the wall slang to cause to become crazy or furious

go up the wall slang to become crazy or furious

have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult situation

See off-the-wall

See wall-to-wall

verb (tr)

to protect, provide, or confine with or as if with a wall

(often foll by up) to block (an opening) with a wall

(often foll by in or up) to seal by or within a wall or walls

Derived forms of wall

walled, adjective wall-less, adjective wall-like, adjective

Word Origin for wall

Old English weall, from Latin vallum palisade, from vallus stake

Medical definitions for walled

wall

[ wôl ]

n.

An investing part enclosing a cavity, chamber, or other anatomical unit.

Idioms and Phrases with walled

wall

In addition to the idioms beginning with wall

walls have ears, the

also see:

back to the wall
beat one's head against the wall
between you and me and the lamppost (four walls)
climb the walls
drive someone crazy (up the wall)
fly on the wall
go to the wall
handwriting on the wall
hole in the wall
off the wall
run into a stone wall

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adjective

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