-walled, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

wall (walls plural )

1  n-count A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room.
Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church..., The bedroom walls would be painted light blue..., She checked the wall clock.
♦ -walled    comb in adj
...a glass-walled elevator...

2 n-count A wall is a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land.
He sat on the wall in the sun...

3 n-count The wall of something that is hollow is its side.
with supp
He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.

4 n-count A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.
with supp, usu N of n
She gazed at the wall of books..., I was just hit by a wall of water.

5 n-count You can describe something as a wall of a particular kind when it acts as a barrier and prevents people from understanding something.
with supp, usu N of n
The police say they met the usual wall of silence...

6
→ cavity wall
→ dry-stone wall
→ fly-on-the-wall
→ hole-in-the-wall
→ off-the-wall
→ retaining wall
→ sea wall
→ stonewall
→ wall-to-wall

7 If you say that you are banging your head against a wall, you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something.
INFORMAL
♦ to bang your head against a wall phrase V inflects, usu cont (emphasis) I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall..., I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.

8 If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.
INFORMAL
♦ have/with your back to the wall phrase back inflects
Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall.

9 If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.
INFORMAL
♦ drive someone up the wall phrase V inflects (emphasis) The heat is driving me up the wall..., I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.

10 If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails.
INFORMAL
♦ go to the wall phrase V inflects
Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days.

11
→ fly on the wall
→ fly
→ the writing is on the wall
→ writing wall in phrasal verb If someone or something is walled in, they are surrounded or enclosed by a wall or barrier.
usu passive
He is walled in by a mountain of papers in his cluttered Broadway office. be V-ed P