seal off

verb

sealed off; sealing off; seals off

transitive verb

: to close tightly

Examples of seal off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The establishment of the Zangezur Corridor would effectively seal off Armenia’s southern frontier with Iran and mean its only open border would be with Georgia. Charlie Campbell / Yerevan, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024 He’s sealed off from the world intentionally at the beginning of his chronological journey. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024 The entrance to the Al Jazeera workspace had been entirely sealed off with iron doors which the security guard told CNN were installed by the Israeli military. Abeer Salman, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024 To explore these nodules, which sit kilometers down, Sweetman’s team lowered an ocean-bottom lander with three experimental chambers that can be partially plunged into the seafloor sediments, sealing off the samples. Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for seal off 

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Word History

First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of seal off was in 1931

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Cite this Entry

“Seal off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seal%20off. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

seal off

verb
: to close tightly
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