English

Verb

sealed

1. simple past tense and past participle of seal

Adjective

sealed ‎(not comparable)

1. Closed by a seal.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     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 that has a asphalt or macadamised surface.
4. (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

Synonyms

• (preventing entrance): impermeable

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Anagrams

• deales
• leased