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Spelling: [wawld]

IPA: /wɔld/

Walled is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in walled (adellw).

Definitions for walled

noun

1. any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
2. Usually, walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
3. an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall:
4. a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.:
5. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
6. the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object:
7. Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
8. Mining. the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.

Idioms

1. climb (the) walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic:
2. drive / push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely:
3. go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison:
4. go to the wall, to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. to fail in business, especially to become bankrupt. to be put aside or forgotten. to take an extreme and determined position or measure:
5. hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish.
6. off the wall, Slang. beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre:
7. up against the wall, placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. in a crucial or critical position, especially one in which defeat or failure seems imminent:
8. up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state:

adjective

1. having walls (sometimes used in combination):
2. enclosed or fortified with a wall:
3. of or relating to a wall:
4. growing against or on a wall:
5. situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall:

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off):
2. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall:
3. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up):

Origin of walled

before 1000; Middle English; Old English geweallod; see wall, -ed², -ed³

Examples for walled

In 2005, they all moved to Abbottabad and settled into a walled compound for the next six years.

Too many of us, not just celebrities, are too walled off from the real-life experience of warriors, including our own.

She would have a good cook-stove, and the great fireplace should be walled up.

And up in the pines he constructed a 200 platform, which he walled and covered with boughs.

They were permitted to hold their meetings outside the walled towns.

So he was taken from his farmhouse and placed under arrest at a police facility, walled off from visitors and social media.

I told her to let it loose in the walled garden behind the house, and opened my letter.

In the end, when she had divided it all, she retired to a convent of Carmelites, walled off from the world.

Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal.

In her mind it had been walled up ever since the hour of Macquart's death.