英语词汇“to brick up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To seal (a person or thing) in an enclosed space with bricks or a brick wall.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > within walls

wall1530

to brick up1592

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E4^v He caused his men to take him, and bricke him vp in a narrow chimney.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. iii. 209 Another Duchesse..was bricked vp in a most narrow roome, hauing an hole in the wall by which she receiued her meat, to prolong her miserable life.

1736 Daily Gazetteer 29 Mar. The Crown Jewels..were thought to have been lost but were lately found..in a Coffer that was sealed, and safely brick'd up in a Wall.

1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 414 Very great sums of money are bricked up and kept in vaults.

1880 Truth 12 Aug. 211/1 He had murdered his wife, and with his own hands had bricked her up in the cellar.

1936 Times 5 Mar. (Royal ed.) 11/6 A human skull, believed to be that of a woman, was found bricked up in the wall of an old Coventry house.

2001 S. King Dreamcatcher xix. 692 Jonesy now thought he knew how Fortunato must have felt when Montressor bricked him up in the wine-cellar.

2. transitive. To block or close up (a window, gate, or other opening) with bricks; to seal off (a room, building, etc.) by blocking the entrance with bricks or a brick wall.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > in other specific ways

wax1377

gypsec1420

lute1495

wall1503

to brick up1606

butter1808

to brick off1836

to board up1885

1606 E. Scott Exact Disc. East Indians sig. C4^v I caused a Porch to be buylt before our new Pepper House doore: likewise the Windowes to be all Bricked vp.

1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxxv. 135/1 They shew also there the House in which it is said they [sc. Joseph and Mary] liv'd... Formerly the Christian Priests said Mass there, but at present it is brick'd up.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. i. 9 They have bricked up the lower part of the..window.

1981 Jrnl. Legal Stud. 10 69 It was more efficient for the plaintiff to brick up his cellar than to let it be flooded.

2007 Financial Times 25 Aug. (Weekend Suppl., FT Mag.) 27/3 The Gestapo took over a couple of the flats, bricked up the windows, cleared out the furniture and subdivided the rooms into cells.

单词	to brick up
释义	> as lemmas to brick up to brick up 1. transitive. To seal (a person or thing) in an enclosed space with bricks or a brick wall. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > within walls wall1530 to brick up1592 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E4^v He caused his men to take him, and bricke him vp in a narrow chimney. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. iii. 209 Another Duchesse..was bricked vp in a most narrow roome, hauing an hole in the wall by which she receiued her meat, to prolong her miserable life. 1736 Daily Gazetteer 29 Mar. The Crown Jewels..were thought to have been lost but were lately found..in a Coffer that was sealed, and safely brick'd up in a Wall. 1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 414 Very great sums of money are bricked up and kept in vaults. 1880 Truth 12 Aug. 211/1 He had murdered his wife, and with his own hands had bricked her up in the cellar. 1936 Times 5 Mar. (Royal ed.) 11/6 A human skull, believed to be that of a woman, was found bricked up in the wall of an old Coventry house. 2001 S. King Dreamcatcher xix. 692 Jonesy now thought he knew how Fortunato must have felt when Montressor bricked him up in the wine-cellar. 2. transitive. To block or close up (a window, gate, or other opening) with bricks; to seal off (a room, building, etc.) by blocking the entrance with bricks or a brick wall. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > in other specific ways wax1377 gypsec1420 lute1495 wall1503 to brick up1606 butter1808 to brick off1836 to board up1885 1606 E. Scott Exact Disc. East Indians sig. C4^v I caused a Porch to be buylt before our new Pepper House doore: likewise the Windowes to be all Bricked vp. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxxv. 135/1 They shew also there the House in which it is said they [sc. Joseph and Mary] liv'd... Formerly the Christian Priests said Mass there, but at present it is brick'd up. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. i. 9 They have bricked up the lower part of the..window. 1981 Jrnl. Legal Stud. 10 69 It was more efficient for the plaintiff to brick up his cellar than to let it be flooded. 2007 Financial Times 25 Aug. (Weekend Suppl., FT Mag.) 27/3 The Gestapo took over a couple of the flats, bricked up the windows, cleared out the furniture and subdivided the rooms into cells. extracted from brickv. < as lemmas
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