wall up

verb

walled up; walling up; walls up

1

: to close off (an opening) by filling it with stone, brick, etc.

They walled up the doorway of the abandoned house.

2

: to keep (someone) as a prisoner in an enclosed space

He was walled up in the tower.

Examples of wall up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Just last month, passersby spotted walls up at the site, a sign that construction work is already underway. —Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 18 Mar. 2026

The black curtain did blend in with the navy blue background on UConn’s Huskies of Honor wall up above the 200-level in Gampel Pavilion. —Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026

But Buca only scored six points on 3-for-6 shooting, while the Jayhawks walled up inside and made paint scoring difficult. —Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2026

The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Mississippi to minus-one yard. —Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026

The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Ole Miss to minus-1 yard. —Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026

The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Ole Miss to minus-1 yard. —Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026

Are her walls up higher than ever? —Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025

Avoidant-avoidant duos, with all their sturdy walls up, might never form much of a bond at all. —Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for wall up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup