walled

verb

past tense of wall
1
as in surrounded

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2
as in preserved

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walled
  1. surrounded
  2. preserved
  3. circumscribed
  4. buffered
  5. enclosed
  6. conserved
  7. closed in
  8. encircled
Verb
  • And last year, two littermate kittens were hit a few hundred feet apart on a busy street surrounded by Naples subdivisions.
    — Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of surrounded
Verb
  • The outcome also preserved the status quo in Kansas City, with Cleaver again heading to Washington buffered by two Republican districts.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The town square is speckled with Southern Colonial Revival and neoclassical homes that have been beautifully preserved.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of preserved
Verb
  • But as an American of Chinese heritage, her travel was circumscribed by the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In the course of the film, Hargitay reevaluates her mom, forming a fuller picture of how Mansfield’s career choices were circumscribed by the egregious sexism of the 1950s and ‘60s.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of circumscribed
Verb
  • The outcome also preserved the status quo in Kansas City, with Cleaver again heading to Washington buffered by two Republican districts.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Thanks to the coffered and baffled wood ceilings, noise levels are buffered and kept to a pleasant rumble.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of buffered
Verb
  • The site will also be enclosed with livestock-style fencing designed to blend into the surrounding agricultural landscape.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • They were enclosed a couple years later, due to the area’s foggy weather.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of enclosed
Verb
  • Biologists know the lands on which panthers prefer to roam, and there’s been proven success when that land is conserved and connected.
    — Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • As such, if the clouds manage to pull on each other and spiral into one another, the initial spiraling motion is conserved into the final rotation of the merged cloud, under the law of conservation of angular momentum.
    — Edwin Alexani, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of conserved
Verb
  • The fast-casual restaurant closed in 2018, with nothing to replace it until now.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The center closed in May after Charlotte City Council and the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization withdrew support for the I-77 South project.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of closed in
Verb
  • Al-Mughayyir, a town of 3,000 increasingly encircled by Israeli settlements, is about seven miles from Deir Jarir — the trip can take over an hour due to military checkpoints.
    — Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Shamsan said fighting had intensified across the province as the Houthis deployed reinforcements to multiple fronts, with the city encircled on all four sides.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of encircled
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