wall off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To isolate completely.
Example Sentences
- "The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment."
- "Early protectionists tried to wall off the country from foreign trade."
- "Nationalist politics, walled off for decades by an artificial silence, have emerged practically unscathed from the ruins of Communism's enforced internationalism."