bricking up
Permanently blocking entry
Bricking up is the act of sealing an opening—typically a door, window, or passage—by filling it with bricks and mortar.
The phrase carries associations with permanent closure and sometimes sinister concealment: They bricked up the old doorway when they renovated.
In horror fiction, bricking up evokes Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," where a victim is entombed alive behind a wall.
- cementCalcium powder binding agent
- wallVertical enclosing structure
- walled inEnclosed by barriers
- blockSolid mass, or impede
- fillMake something full
mortar · build · old building · house · sealing · sealed shut · masonry · medieval castles · hidden chamber · secret passage · entombment · Edgar Allan Poe · gothic literature · isolation · confinement · walling off · obstruction · permanence
bricking upopening up
Becoming less guarded
unblocking · unbricking · unsealing · uncovering · clearing
bricking updemolishing
Destroying a structure completely
demolition · tearing down · knocking down · breaking down · dismantling
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