Word Finder - wall

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A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

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A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

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The town wall was surrounded by a moat.

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Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

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We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling.  The wind blew against the walls of the tent.

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A point of desperation.

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A point of defeat or extinction.

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An impediment to free movement.

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A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.

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A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).

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(often in combination) A barrier.

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a seawall;  a firewall

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A barrier to vision.

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Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.

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a wall of sound;  a wall of water

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A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

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(auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

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• chandelier

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A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.

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A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.

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A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.

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To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

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He walled the study with books.

The keys hung on the wall beside the door.

An alarm went up at the wall.

She leaned her head against the shower wall, exhausted.

He lifted his hat from a peg on the wall and shrugged into his coat.

Finally he put a hand on the wall on each side of her head.

Let into the wall was a star-shaped light.

Her gaze moved from the incredible view to the condo's owner, whose desk sat against the wall opposite her beside the windows.

Finally he pushed away from the wall and crossed to the table.

Martha glanced at the wall clock.

Her eyes went to the wall clock.

There was a barber shop and I could see a calendar on the wall but I couldn't quite read it.

She squinted through her fingers and braced herself against one wall to counter the effects the drugs had on her equilibrium as she moved down the long hallway.

Through a gap in the broken wall he could see, beside the wooden fence, a row of thirty year-old birches with their lower branches lopped off, a field on which shocks of oats were standing, and some bushes near which rose the smoke of campfires-- the soldiers' kitchens.

Removing his hands from the wall, he placed them on her shoulders, pulling her closer.

He pushed her against the wall, pulling at her dress again.

About 10 feet back into the cave water oozed from the wall, slowly dripping into a small rock pool.

He flung her to the ground near the far wall.

He leaned his head against the wall.

At this moment that terrible door burst noisily open and banged against the wall.

A tall black woman moved forward from against the wall.

We braced our ladder against the wall and played a game of numbers to see who would the first to climb.

She wobbled and balanced herself against the wall.

She took in his wounds again, unable to fathom why her father would chain him to the wall in their wine cellar.

She slumped against the low wall, propping up her elbows and covering her face.

It was always hanging on our wall.

After banging a shin on the low stone wall that encircles the flagstone patio, I finally reached the back door.

She waited until she was certain he was distracted before she crept across the apartment, keeping as close to the wall farthest from him as possible.

They stopped in a small command center, where one wall displayed monitors.

Her eyes dropped to what was left of the other three then flew up to the wall.

Her back hit the wall.

She wrenched free of his hold and pushed him hard enough to slide out from between him and the wall.

She leaned against the waist-high wall.

The next morning, Deidre found herself at the wall overlooking the red deserts of Hell.

Her heel hit the solidness of a wall, and she tried to bolt.

Reaching the wall, Deidre ignored the scrape of concrete against her hands and knees as she clambered on top.

She sensed a brick wall and hesitated, considering.

The man who opened the door pushed Jackson against the wall, holding him easily.

Leaning against the wall, she stared out into the storm.

He grabbed her hands and shoved her against the barn wall.

In a few minutes, a nurse came in and flipped a switch on the wall.

Jessi sagged against the wall.

A medallion of Homer hangs on the wall of my study, conveniently low, so that I can easily reach it and touch the beautiful, sad face with loving reverence.

Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots.

As the conversation began to assume a loftier and grander tone, we gradually shoved our chairs farther apart till they touched the wall in opposite corners, and then commonly there was not room enough.

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal.

The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.

Natasha jumped on it, sank into the feather bed, rolled over to the wall, and began snuggling up the bedclothes as she settled down, raising her knees to her chin, kicking out and laughing almost inaudibly, now covering herself up head and all, and now peeping at her mother.

They were quietly dropping melted wax into snow and looking at the shadows the wax figures would throw on the wall, when they heard the steps and voices of new arrivals in the vestibule.

But within the Trinity Gateway he was so pressed to the wall by people who probably were unaware of the patriotic intentions with which he had come that in spite of all his determination he had to give in, and stop while carriages passed in, rumbling beneath the archway.

The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight.