firewalled
USFY-er-wawld/ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɔld/UKFY-uh-wawld/ˈfaɪə.wɔəld/
- 1Simple past and past participle of firewall.
The IT team firewalled the servers before connecting them to the internet.
Every sensitive database was firewalled against outside access.
Note
One spelling does double duty, and the verb's two lives decide how it behaves. Meaning to protect or block with a firewall, it is transitive, so it takes a passive (the servers were firewalled) and sits before a noun (a firewalled network). In the slang of running an engine at full power it is intransitive: a driver firewalled out of the corner, but nothing is firewalled by anyone.
firewalled is a form of firewall
firewall, verb: To protect a computer or network by installing and configuring a firewall. Full entry
- Forms
- firewallfirewalls he/she/itfirewalling -ing formfirewalled past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- firewall → firewalled: add -ed
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