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单词 bricked-up
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bricked-up
With following adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to brick v. Phrasal verbs, as bricked-in, bricked-off, bricked-over, bricked-up, etc. [After to brick in, to brick up, etc., at brick v. Phrasal verbs.]
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1704 J. Savage tr. C. de Valera Full View Popery i. 160 When he comes to the Brick'd-up Gate he uses the Words of the Psalmist,..Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates.
1846 Hood's Mag. July 64 A dismal, bricked-in Mansion, on the west side of Cavendish Square.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 244/1 There is scarcely a school in the city with anything worth calling a play-ground, poor, miserable, cramped, bricked-over affairs.
1893 Garden 17 June 516/3 Each tree when first planted was placed in a bricked-off partition.
1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 May 1038/1 This rain water is collected from the roof and stored in cisterns above ground or bricked-in tanks underground.
1966 N.Y. Times 22 July 36/3 The exterior is pink and white brick, with a bricked-off entrance in front shared by both apartments.
1973 Times 31 Mar. 5/7 Describing his 42 months in solitary confinement, in a cell with bricked-over windows, Captain Mulligan said: ‘I was kept like an animal in a cage.’
2007 L. T. Bergren Betrayed xix. 203 Abramo spoke to his guards, who led the prisoners..into a bricked-off room that would deaden any cry they dared utter.
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