bricks up
Closes with masonry
To brick up is to seal an opening with bricks, closing off a doorway, window, or passage permanently: They bricked up the old entrance years ago.
The phrase often carries a sense of deliberate concealment or entombment—Edgar Allan Poe's Montresor bricks up his victim in "The Cask of Amontillado."
- sealAuthentication stamp or mark
- encloseShut in on all sides
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- obstructBlock or hinder passage
- entombSeal in a sepulcher
hidden away · laid to rest · wall in · walled off · isolation · barricade · masonry · immure · partition · blockade · separation · close off · shut in · closed in · trowel · plastering · foundation · cement
bricks upopens up
Begins speaking candidly
unblocks · clears · cuts through · unseals · uncovers
bricks updemolishes
Tears down completely
tears down · knocks down · breaks down · dismantles · destroys
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