wall off

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wall off (third-person singular simple present walls off, present participle walling off, simple past and past participle walled off)

  1. To separate with a wall.
    The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
  2. (figurative, by extension) To isolate completely.
    Early protectionists tried to wall off the country from foreign trade.
    • 1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times[1], section A, page 1:
      Nationalist politics, walled off for decades by an artificial silence, have emerged practically unscathed from the ruins of Communism's enforced internationalism.

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