[verb] [T usually + adverb or preposition]To brick in/up something is to build a wall of bricks around something or to fill something with bricks.The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in.In an attempt to stop the fighting, one side of the city was bricked off (= a brick wall was built to separate it) from the other. [T usually + adverb or preposition]
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Meaning of BRICK in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012