seal off

verb

sealed off; sealing off; seals off

transitive verb

: to close tightly

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Firefighters, hindered by cinder blocks sealing off windows and doors, discovered the woman, believed to be in her 40s, dead in an alleyway behind the building. — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025 Palestinian television reported Thursday that the IDF had established roadblocks near Ramallah and sealed off one village in the area. — Tim Lister and Eugenia Yosef, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025 Others were never able to reach their properties before the authorities sealed off their neighborhoods as the flames consumed everything in sight. — Johnny Dodd, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025 If these measures don't help, a procedure called varicocele embolization can redirect blood flow around the obstruction by sealing off blood vessels with heat or a sclerosing agent. — Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for seal off

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First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of seal off was in 1931

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seal off

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: to close tightly
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