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WALL Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com Synonyms wall American [wawl] / wɔl / noun any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc. Usually walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes. Synonyms: bastion , barrier , bulwark , breastwork , battlement an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall. a wall of prejudice. a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.. a wall of fire; a wall of troops. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall. Synonyms: dike the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object. the wall of a blood cell. Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies. Mining. the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall . adjective of or relating to a wall. wall space. growing against or on a wall. wall plants; wall cress. situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall. wall oven; a wall safe. verb (used with object) to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off ). to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall. to wall an unused entrance. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up ). The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake. Synonyms: immure idioms climb (the) walls , to become tense or frantic. climbing the walls with boredom. up the wall , into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state. The constant tension in the office is driving everyone up the wall. drive / push to the wall , to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely. Not content with merely winning the match, they used every opportunity to push the inferior team to the wall. off the wall , beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness. The figure you quoted for doing the work is off the wall. markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre. Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer. hit the wall , (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish. go to the wall , to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. to fail in business, especially to become bankrupt. to be put aside or forgotten. to take an extreme and determined position or measure. I'd go to the wall to stop him from resigning. go over the wall , to break out of prison. Roadblocks have been set up in an effort to capture several convicts who went over the wall. up against the wall , placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. in a crucial or critical position, especially one in which defeat or failure seems imminent. Unless sales improve next month, the company will be up against the wall. wall British / wɔːl / noun a vertical construction made of stone, brick, wood, etc, with a length and height much greater than its thickness, used to enclose, divide, or support ( as modifier ) wall hangings (often plural) a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes Technical name: paries . anatomy any lining, membrane, or investing part that encloses or bounds a bodily cavity or structure abdominal wall mountaineering a vertical or almost vertical smooth rock face anything that suggests a wall in function or effect a wall of fire a wall of prejudice to try to achieve something impossible to force into an awkward situation to be ruined; collapse financially slang to cause to become crazy or furious slang to become crazy or furious to be in a very difficult situation See off-the-wall See wall-to-wall "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 verb to protect, provide, or confine with or as if with a wall (often foll by up) to block (an opening) with a wall to seal by or within a wall or walls "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 wall More Idioms More idioms and phrases containing wall back to the wall beat one's head against the wall between you and me and the lamppost (four walls) climb the walls drive someone crazy (up the wall) fly on the wall go to the wall handwriting on the wall hole in the wall off the wall run into a stone wall Other Word Forms unwall verb (used with object) wall-less adjective wall-like adjective walled adjective Etymology Origin of wall First recorded before 900; (for the noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all, from Latin vallum “palisade,” derivative of vallus “stake, post”; see wale 1 ; verb derivative of the noun Example Sentences Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com. The specimen was first uncovered by a retired chicken farmer, who had sourced rocks from a nearby quarry to build a garden retaining wall. From Science Daily • May 6, 2026 Eduardo Rodrigues Cavalcante, a receptionist at a hotel adjacent to the school, described scenes of terror, as some students tried to jump over a wall separating the school from the hotel. From Barron's • May 6, 2026 He hired graffiti artists to paint a Liberty Bell and “Exit Only” sign on one wall, and the family’s names, written in Korean, on another. From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026 As a reward, the Orioles let Lesch hit — he never had batted in the minors — and he drove a pitch over the left-field wall, then dropped the bat and walked away. From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026 A washtub webbed to the wall stood on a rickety table. From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck Related Words bar barricade barrier block dam embankment facade fence screen side surface Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.