brick up sth
— phrasal verb with brick uk/brɪk/us/brɪk/verb
to build a wall of bricks around something, or to fill something with bricks:
The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in.
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Filling and completing
- brick
- brim
- crowd
- crowd (sth) into sth
- crowd sb/sth out
- fill
- jam
- occupy
- overcrowded
- overran
- overrun
- pack sth/somewhere out
- plug
- round
- supersaturated
- tank
- tank up
- top sb up
- top sth up
- wadding
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