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wall

an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures"

a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls"

anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall"

a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"

surround with a wall in order to fortify

Synonyms:

• arch dam,
• arm,
• armor,
• armor-plate,
• backstop,
• balustrade,
• bamboo curtain,
• bank,
• bar,
• barbed wire,
• barrage,
• barricade,
• barrier,
• battle,
• bear-trap dam,
• beaver dam,
• block,
• blockade,
• bluff,
• boom,
• boundary,
• brattice,
• breakwater,
• breastwork,
• brick wall,
• buffer,
• buffer state,
• bulkhead,
• bulkhead in,
• bulwark,
• bumper,
• cage,
• castellate,
• cliff,
• cloison,
• close in,
• cofferdam,
• collision mat,
• contravallation,
• coop,
• corral,
• crag,
• crenellate,
• cushion,
• dam,
• defense,
• diaphragm,
• dig in,
• dike,
• dissepiment,
• ditch,
• divide,
• dividing line,
• dividing wall,
• division,
• earthwork,
• embankment,
• embattle,
• entrench,
• envelop,
• escarpment,
• face,
• fence,
• fence off,
• fences,
• fender,
• fortify,
• garrison,
• gate,
• gravity dam,
• groin,
• hedge,
• hedgerow,
• hem,
• hoarding,
• hydraulic-fill dam,
• immure,
• interseptum,
• iron curtain,
• jam,
• jetty,
• leaping weir,
• levee,
• logjam,
• man,
• man the garrison,
• mat,
• midriff,
• midsection,
• milldam,
• mine,
• moat,
• mole,
• mound,
• pad,
• pale,
• paling,
• palisade,
• palisades,
• panel,
• parapet,
• paries,
• partition,
• party wall,
• picket,
• portcullis,
• precipice,
• property line,
• rail,
• railing,
• rampart,
• retaining wall,
• roadblock,
• rock-fill dam,
• scar,
• scarp,
• seawall,
• separate,
• separation,
• septulum,
• septum,
• set apart,
• shock pad,
• shutter dam,
• steep,
• stockade,
• stone wall,
• stop,
• trellis,
• vallation,
• vallum,
• wall off,
• weir,
• wicket dam,
• work,
• zigzag fence