Sealed

//siːld// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage). not-comparable

    "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."

  2. 2
    Preventing entrance. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface. not-comparable
  4. 4
    Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster wordnet
  2. 2
    covered with a waterproof coating wordnet
  3. 3
    apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious wordnet
  4. 4
    determined irrevocably wordnet
  5. 5
    closed or secured with or as if with a seal wordnet
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  1. 6
    established irrevocably wordnet
  2. 7
    undisclosed for the time being wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of seal form-of, participle, past

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