Is Walled up a Word?

wall someone up enclose, confine, detain, imprison, lock up, constrain, put away, incarcerate, jail He was walled up in a tiny cell and left to die.

What does it mean to wall 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.

What does being walled in mean?

phrasal verb [usually passive] If someone or something is walled in, they are surrounded or enclosed by a wall or barrier. He is walled in by a mountain of papers in his cluttered Broadway office. [