| 单词 | wall something or someone in |
| 释义 | (phrasal verb) Definition to enclose (someone or something) completely in a room or place The garden is walled in to create a feeling of privacy. Synonyms enclose The land was enclosed by an eight-foot wire fence. surround The church was surrounded by a rusted wrought-iron fence. bound the trees that bounded the car park fence They intend to fence in about 100 acres of land. hedge sweeping lawns hedged with floribundas encompass Egypt is encompassed by the Mediterranean, Sudan, the Red Sea and Libya. encircle A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail. encase impound pen in circumscribe hem in shut in Additional synonymsin the sense of bound Definition to form a boundary of the trees that bounded the car park Synonyms surround, confine, enclose, terminate, encircle, circumscribe, hem in, demarcate, delimitin the sense of circumscribe Definition to draw a geometric figure around (another figure) so that the two are in contact but do not intersect Synonyms surround, bound, enclose, encompass, encircle, mark off, environin the sense of encircle Definition to form a circle round A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail. Synonyms surround, ring, circle, enclose, encompass, compass, envelop, girdle, circumscribe, hem in, enfold, environ, gird in, begird (poetic), enwreath Nearby words of |
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