board up

To cover parts of a building (often the windows) with wooden planks. That hurricane is bearing down on us, so we need to leave town as soon as we finish boarding up the windows. I can't believe someone finally bought that old, abandoned house—it's been boarded up for years. This part of town is awfully spooky. It's like people just boarded up their homes and left but never came back.

boarded up

Covered with wooden planks (especially over the windows), as of an abandoned building. I can't believe someone finally bought that old, boarded up house—it's been empty for years. This part of town is awfully spooky—it's nothing but boarded up and dilapidated old buildings. Because we had to flee the approaching hurricane, we just had to leave the house boarded up and hope for the best.