When you ~ a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
They had blocked off the fireplaces to stop draughts.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
When you ~ a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
They had blocked off the fireplaces to stop draughts.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012