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wall someone or something in

to contain someone or something behind or within a wall. (Implies a constriction of space, but not necessarily an inescapable area. See wall something up.) The count walled his prisoner in permanently. Jane decided to wall in the little garden at the side of the house. She walled the garden in.

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Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did it out of pure spite at the vicious thing. The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins View in context This capacity in bees of laying down under certain circumstances a rough wall in its proper place between two just-commenced cells, is important, as it bears on a fact, which seems at first quite subversive of the foregoing theory; namely, that the cells on the extreme margin of wasp-combs are sometimes strictly hexagonal; but I have not space here to enter on this subject. The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context The fact that I live in the kitchen merely means that I live behind the partition wall in that apartment--that I live quite alone, and spend my time in a quiet fashion compounded of trifles. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context			walk off with walk on walk on air walk on eggs walk on eggshells walk on stage and off again walk out walk out on walk out with walk over walk over to walk right in walk right up walk soft walk tall walk the floor walk the plank walk the walk walk through walk together walk up walk up to walk with walking wall wall in wall off wall up wall-to-wall wallow in Walls have ears waltz waltz around waltz in waltz off waltz through waltz up wand wander wander about wander away wander from wander in wandering hands wane wangle wangle from wangle out of wanna want want a piece of me?			Wall fountain Wall fountain Wall frame Wall frame wall friction Wall fruit wall furnace Wall Furniture Outlet wall furring wall gable Wall game Wall game wall garden Wall gecko wall germander wall germander wall germanders Wall gillyflower wall grille wall guard Wall hack wall handrail wall hanger wall hanging wall hangings wall height wall hook wall humping wall in wall iron wall joint wall knot wall knots Wall Lake Public Library Wall Lake View Auburn School District wall light wall line wall liner Wall lizard Wall lizards Wall louse wall map Wall mart Wall Materials Wall moss Wall Motion Abnormality Wall Motion Abnormality Index Wall Motion Score Index Wall Mount Bracket Long Wall Mounted Bath Shower Mixer Wall Mounted Fume Arms Wall mural Wall mural Wall mural wall mustard

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