wall off
Partition from others
To wall off is to separate or isolate by creating a barrier, literal or figurative.
You might wall off a section of a room with drywall, or wall off painful memories to cope with trauma.
The phrase suggests deliberate compartmentalization: She walled off her work life from her personal life.
In technical contexts, it can mean to quarantine or restrict access: The network administrator walled off the compromised servers.
partition
Barrier separating spaces
- barricadeObstacle blocking a path
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- secludeSet apart from others
segregate · cordon · insulate · shield · cloister · immure · sequester · confine · cocoon · retreat
divide
Separate into parts
compartmentalize · subdivide · screen · curtain · fence · barrier · boundary · segment · split · bisect
- line blockingdouble team, chop block, pass protection
- isolationloneliness, quarantine, seclusion, lockdown, solitude
- restrainhold back, suppress, hold in, keep in, keep down
- boundariesboundary, boundary line, borders, border, edges