brick up

brick up

To cover an opening with bricks. The contractor is going to brick up the windows in this room before he starts working on the addition. A: "If I bricked up this hole in the exterior wall, do you think that would stop the leak?" B: "It's certainly not a bad start!" I'm worried that mice will get in if we don't brick up that opening in the basement wall.

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brick something up

to fill up an opening with bricks. He bricked the doorway up. Why did he brick up the opening?

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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

brick up

v.

To fill or block an opening with a wall of bricks: The owners of the old factory bricked up the windows to keep animals and curious children out. The builders bricked the old doorway up and covered it with drywall.

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