Word Finder - walls

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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.

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To boil.

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To well, as water; spring.

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A spring of water.

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.

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To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

The ground rumbled suddenly and the garage walls shook.

We need to repair the walls, Taran said.

The underground world was well built and bright with whitewashed walls lining corridors wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

In his large study, the walls of which were hung to the ceiling with Persian rugs, bearskins, and weapons, sat Dolokhov in a traveling cloak and high boots, at an open desk on which lay an abacus and some bundles of paper money.

The rocky walls surrounded him on every side.

She jerked the door open, sending frightened chickens flopping against the coop walls.

If you use the right colors, and brighten the walls with a few large pictures, or some mirrors, it wouldn't be so dark.

Remembering the pictures on the walls in the house, she wondered if it was a forgery.

Then I remembered her talking to me about the paintings on his walls.

There he scooped a bed in the sandy floor, away from the moist walls.

Imagine the stories that must lurk in the walls of this house.

There was no window and the only ornaments were crucifixes on three walls.

She looked at the pictures on his walls, not surprised to find them bland.

They moved like smoke, shifting and swirling as they crawled the walls.

They began beating against their cell walls, and the lights flickered again.

He can't come in the walls.

Outside the walls lies another columnar building.

Deidre's eyes were caught by the gardens but drifted to the pine trees beyond the walls.

The walls were breached.

There were handprints on the windows, as if someone had tried to escape, and blood splattered on the ceiling and the walls.

It certainly didn't smell like someone had painted it recently, and there were scuff marks, crayon, and dirt on the walls.

He trailed Kiki out of the castle to the boulders a short distance from the walls.

Kiki ceased pacing and stared at the walls.

Rhyn took a deep breath before perching on a boulder outside the walls.

The bedchamber was done up in pastels, soft rose drapes, light blue and green rugs, yellow pillows and highlights, which seemed to take the chill out of the stone walls.

Kris could kill or have him killed in retribution for any life he took while inside the walls.

When he.s strong enough, we can send him outside the walls.

Frustrated at not finding either of the men he sought, he created a portal to the Caribbean Sanctuary and emerged outside the walls.

I left her outside the walls because I didn.t want Toby to see.

Darkyn fell as well, and the walls around the Sanctuary tumbled in the distance.

That would explain why the walls around the Sanctuary are in ruins.

Inside, the first and second levels had been combined to create a large, tall space whose walls and ceilings were lined with paintings.

She didn't really care what the dark grey walls, floors, and ceilings were made of or why the floor felt like carpet and looked like gun metal.

Its legs were jointed outwards like a spider's, and its ability to climb walls resembled that of a spider.

A yellowish glow emitted from some unseen light source in the grey walls reminded her of a late winter afternoon that never ended.

It was allegedly her translator and emitted a low-level hum similar to the walls.

There were no traditional decorations such as pictures or mirrors on the walls, but colorful cords and streams of what might have been silk edging the corners and dangling from high ceilings.

Unlike the cheerful white walls of the house, the tall wall was the unwelcome shade of dark grey that she'd begun to despise after days in the spaceships surrounded by it.

She entered a narrow, well-lit hall and followed it through smoothly hewn walls.

She expected another similar chamber with a low ceiling and plain walls and was stunned at the massive cave before her.

She walked into the chamber, awed by the drawings and writings on the walls.

Kiera looked around, speechless at the soaring ceilings, the atrium with a waterfall in the foyer, and pristine white walls covered with the multi-colored roping.

Later, the serendipitous drippings were augmented by additional piping, carrying excess water to spray even more surface of the rock walls.

All seemed to be in perilously dangerous situations, clinging to the sheer walls with outstretched arms and spread legs, somehow adhered to the clear surface before them.

But, to Dean, neither did a 10mm line, all that bound the scampering gnats they could see peppering the icy walls of the gorge.

Since the first time I stepped inside I had a sense of all of the love and happiness and peace those walls have witnessed.

Up the gorge, there were no climbers tacked to the icy walls.

Dean yelled, his voice echoing up and down the now empty gorge, bouncing about the stone walls and boulders of the narrow ravine.

All the comforts of home, except behind the rich brocade fabric walls stood twenty-four inches of rebar reinforced concrete and the door consisted of eight-inch diameter solid steel bars.

The music room had raised panel cherry walls and a coffered ceiling with intricately carved beams.