sealed
adjective
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Pronunciation: /siːld/
adj
- 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.”
- Preventing entrance.
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
verb
- simple past and past participle of seal