All walled synonyms
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W w verb walled
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- dam β A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
- deadbolt β a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- dike β a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- fasten β to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- jam β to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- latch β a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lock β a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
- plug β an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- seal β a member of the U.S. Navyβs special operations forces.
- secure β free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- trammel β Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- wall β 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.
- encircle β Form a circle around ; surround.
- bound β Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- cage β A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- circumscribe β If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- coop β A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits.
- corral β In North America, a corral is a space surrounded by a fence where cattle or horses are kept.
- defend β If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
- fortify β to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- girdle β a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- guard β to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- hedge β a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
- hem β to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
- immure β to enclose within walls.
- mew β a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- pen β a female swan.
- protect β to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- rail β any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- surround β to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- mure β Obsolete. a wall.
- cloister β A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- entomb β Place (a dead body) in a tomb.
- imprison β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- incarcerate β to imprison; confine.
- jail β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- seclude β to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- enclose β Surround or close off on all sides.
- circle β A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- encase β Enclose or cover in a case or close-fitting surround.
- encompass β Surround and have or hold within.
- enfold β Surround; envelop.
- enshroud β Envelop completely and hide from view.
- environ β Surround; enclose.
- imbue β to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.