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brick up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To block or cover using bricks.
   • Or it may be that the trains continue to pass but never more will stop, and the platforms are stripped and laid bare, the doorways bricked up, the overbridges dismantled, and the empty buildings stare out upon the passing trains with the reproachful melancholy of an old tombstone in a city churchyard overlooking a city street. 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
   • The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.
   • I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.
2. (transitive) To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.
   • The chest was bricked up into the wall.
   • We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door. 2020 December 11, Richard Speed, “Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To become constipated.
4. (Internet, transitive) To cause (someone) to have an erection.
   • She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more. 2023, Lula White, Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3), Lula White Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
5. To build a supporting structure out of brick in order to form the containing walls of a mould.

Forms

Relateds

bricked up

Synonyms

brick in

Translations (8)

de zumauern (to block by masonry) · fi muurata umpeen (to block by masonry) · ru замуровать (to block by masonry) · pl zamurować (to block by masonry) · pl zamurowywać (to block by masonry) · sv mura igen (to block by masonry) · pt tijolar (to block by masonry) · sv mura för (to block by masonry)