wall off
phrasal verb
walled off; walling off; walls off
: to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall
The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.
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Committee chairman Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said even if DHS wanted to wall off another 1,000 miles – unlikely due to extremely rugged and mountainous terrain in some parts – the agency would need $12 billion, not $45.6 billion.
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Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Driving around one morning, Hiaasen took me to see a cluster of tall condo buildings walling off the ocean from view.
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and ripping the walls off multiple apartments.
—Ami Bentov, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles had struck a residential building, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and pulling the walls off multiple apartments.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
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Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Driving around one morning, Hiaasen took me to see a cluster of tall condo buildings walling off the ocean from view.
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and ripping the walls off multiple apartments.
—Ami Bentov, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles had struck a residential building, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and pulling the walls off multiple apartments.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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