sealed

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

//siːld//

Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).

verb

1
Also a form of sealsimple past and past participle of seal

adjective

1
Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
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
Preventing entrance.
3
Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
4
Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

Seagulls · Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club seal · A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true…Seal · A surname.

sealed · Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).

Seals · A Cornish habitational surname.seaman · Synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.Seaman · A surname originating as an occupation.

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