Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wall sth off
Participle: walled sth off
Gerund: walling sth off
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wall sth off |
| you | wall sth off |
| he;she;it | walls sth off |
| we | wall sth off |
| you | wall sth off |
| they | wall sth off |
Perfect
| I | have walled sth off |
| you | have walled sth off |
| he;she;it | has walled sth off |
| we | have walled sth off |
| you | have walled sth off |
| they | have walled sth off |
Past
| I | walled sth off |
| you | walled sth off |
| he;she;it | walled sth off |
| we | walled sth off |
| you | walled sth off |
| they | walled sth off |
Pluperfect
| I | had walled sth off |
| you | had walled sth off |
| he;she;it | had walled sth off |
| we | had walled sth off |
| you | had walled sth off |
| they | had walled sth off |
Future
| I | will wall sth off |
| you | will wall sth off |
| he;she;it | will wall sth off |
| we | will wall sth off |
| you | will wall sth off |
| they | will wall sth off |
Future Perfect
| I | will have walled sth off |
| you | will have walled sth off |
| he;she;it | will have walled sth off |
| we | will have walled sth off |
| you | will have walled sth off |
| they | will have walled sth off |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wall sth off |
| you | wall sth off |
| he;she;it | wall sth off |
| we | wall sth off |
| you | wall sth off |
| they | wall sth off |
Perfect
| I | have walled sth off |
| you | have walled sth off |
| he;she;it | have walled sth off |
| we | have walled sth off |
| you | have walled sth off |
| they | have walled sth off |
Imperfect
| I | walled sth off |
| you | walled sth off |
| he;she;it | walled sth off |
| we | walled sth off |
| you | walled sth off |
| they | walled sth off |
Pluperfect
| I | had walled sth off |
| you | had walled sth off |
| he;she;it | had walled sth off |
| we | had walled sth off |
| you | had walled sth off |
| they | had walled sth off |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wall sth off |
| you | would wall sth off |
| he;she;it | would wall sth off |
| we | would wall sth off |
| you | would wall sth off |
| they | would wall sth off |
Perfect
| I | would have walled sth off |
| you | would have walled sth off |
| he;she;it | would have walled sth off |
| we | would have walled sth off |
| you | would have walled sth off |
| they | would have walled sth off |
Imperative
| you | wall sth off |
| we | Let's wall sth off |
| you | wall sth off |
Verbs conjugated like 'wall'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wall'
ball,
call,
fall,
gall,
lall,
mall,
pall,
wail,
wald,
wale,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E. weall "rampart" (natural as well as man-made), also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building, interior partition," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.L.G., M.Du. wal) from L. vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake." Swed. vall, Dan. val are from Low Ger. In this case, Eng. uses one word where many languages have two, e.g. Ger. Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in ref. to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (cf. the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in It. muro/parete, Ir. mur/fraig, Lith. muras/siena, etc.). The verb meaning "to enclose in a wall" is late O.E. *weallian. Wallpaper is attested from 1827. Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, Amer.Eng. student slang. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1953, of carpeting; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.
2. From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
3. Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
4. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
Sample Sentences
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The House of Correction which has led to these remarks, is not walled, like other prisons, but is palisaded round about with tall rough stakes, something after the manner of an enclosure for keeping elephants in, as we see it represented in Eastern prints and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)