bricked in
Sealed with masonry
Bricked in means enclosed or trapped by walls, literally or figuratively.
A window can be bricked in—sealed with masonry where an opening once existed.
A person bricked in feels confined or isolated: After the merger, the old employees found themselves bricked in by new policies they had no part in creating.
The phrase suggests permanent enclosure rather than temporary obstruction.
- walled upEnclosed by constructed barriers
- firebrickHeat-resistant ceramic block
- suffocatedKilled by airlessness
- trappedUnable to escape
- enclosedSurrounded and sealed within
closed in · hemmed in · fortress · barricaded · masonry · walling · isolated · tomb · stuck · dead end · claustrophobic · buried alive · Poe · constrained · immured · imprisoned · trowel · castle
bricked inopen
Not closed
opened up · unblocked · accessible · exposed · unenclosed
bricked infreed
Released from confinement
liberated · released · unconfined · at liberty · let out
brick, bricked, bricking, bricks, brickwork, brickyard, bricklayer, bricklaying