brick up
B2 neutral separable transitive
In simple words
to shut a hole or door with bricks
Meanings
1 B2 neutral
to seal or close an opening by building bricks into it
"They bricked up the back entrance after the extension was built."
Grammar: separable
2 C1 neutral
to shut someone or something in behind a brick wall
"In the legend, the prisoners were bricked up alive."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Usually literal and common with windows, doors, fireplaces, and tunnels. It can also be used figuratively in rare literary contexts.
Commonly used with
window door entrance fireplace tunnel opening
Forms
Base
brick up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
bricks up
he/she/it
Past simple
bricked up
yesterday
Past participle
bricked up
have + pp
-ing form
bricking up
continuous
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