prison wall
Inmate's looming perimeter
A prison wall is the physical barrier enclosing a prison, typically high, thick, and topped with wire or other deterrents to prevent escape.
Figuratively, prison walls represent confinement or insurmountable obstacles: The disease became prison walls around her life.
The phrase often emphasizes isolation or entrapment rather than the literal structure.
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- concreteSolid building mixture
- guard towerElevated post for sentries
- razor wireBladed security fencing
- escapeFlight from captivity
cell block · cell door · barrier · fortress · solitary confinement · confinement · watchtower · armed guard · brick · perimeter · no man's land · fence · captivity · incarceration · doing time · chain gang · climb · tunnel
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate
- wallsdrywall, bulkhead, rampart, bastion, bulwark
- prison equipmenthandcuffs, shackles, cell bars, bars, jail cell
- security barriersbarrier, barricade, border fence, perimeter fence, security fence
prison wallfreedom
Absence of constraint
open road · escape route · release · liberty · exit door
prison wallopen field
Unenclosed outdoor space
horizon · open space · clearing · meadow · open plain
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