WALL UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wall up mean? 

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

1. enclose with a wall

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALL UP (verb)

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