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sealed

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /siːld/

adj

  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.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of seal