"brick in" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-brick in.ogg [Australia] Forms: bricks in [present, singular, third-person], bricking in [participle, present], bricked in [participle, past], bricked in [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} brick in (third-person singular simple present bricks in, present participle bricking in, simple past and past participle bricked in)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic, of a passage or of something that would pass through it) To enclose with bricks. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Categories (topical): Bricks Coordinate_terms: box in, brick up, fence in

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brick in meaning in English (2.2kB)

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