 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
walled
adjective: having or surrounded by walls or walls of a specified kind;
sometimes used as a combining term; "the ancient walled
city of Jerico"; "thick-walled cells" [ant: {wall-less}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wall \Wall\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Walled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Walling}.]
1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. ''Seven walled
towns of strength.'' --Shak.
The king of Thebes, Amphion,
That with his singing walled that city. --Chaucer.
2. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
The terror of his name that walls us in. --Denham.
3. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "walled":
armored, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound,
cabined, caged, cased, ceiled, cloaked, cloistered, closed-in,
clouded, coated, confined, cooped, coped, cordoned, cordoned off,
corralled, covered, covert, cowled, cramped, cribbed, curtained,
eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enclosed, enveloped,
enwrapped, fenced, filmed, floored, hedged, hemmed, hooded, housed,
immured, imprisoned, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, loricate,
loricated, mantled, masked, mewed, muffled, mural, obscured,
occulted, packaged, paled, parietal, partitioned, paved, penned,
pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, roofed-in, screened,
scummed, septal, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, shut-in,
swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled-in, wrapped
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