seal off
English
editVerb
editseal off (third-person singular simple present seals off, present participle sealing off, simple past and past participle sealed off)
- (transitive) To physically isolate an area or building for security reasons preventing passage of humans or vehicles.
- Police sealed off the building following an anonymous bomb warning.
- December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian[1]:
- More dangerous still are the 20 tonnes of melted fuel inside a reactor that caught fire in 1957 and has been sealed off and left alone ever since.
Translations
editseal — see seal