walled

1. 1
   adjective

   Having a wall built around it to protect it or keep things inside.

   Like a strong fence around a yard, but built from stone or brick.

   The walled garden kept the wind off the young seedlings.

   Villagers retreated behind a walled city when invaders came.

   Similarenclosed, fortified

   Oppositeopen

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2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of wall. Use this form for something that already happened or has been finished.

   The workers walled off the old doorway last spring.

   Villagers walled in the well to keep the water clean.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Shut inside a wall, with no way out.

   Like a coin sealed inside a brick so no one can ever take it out.

   The walled anchorite spent her last years sealed in a tiny stone cell.

   An old legend spoke of a walled bride hidden inside the bridge's foundation.

   Similarimmured, sealed

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