We weren't using the fireplace so we decided to brick it in.The windows of the local army office have been bricked up, I notice.
phrasebrick up brick up/in sth • brick sth up/in to put a wall of bricks in the space where a window, door etc is, so that it cannot be used any more: The house had been empty for years and all the windows had been bricked up.Its previous owners had bricked in the old fireplace and put a gas heater there instead.
brick up
To cover an opening with bricks. The contractor is going to brick up the windows in this room before he starts working on the addition.
brick something up
to fill up an opening with bricks. He bricked the doorway up.Why did he brick up the opening?
brick up
v.
To fill or block an opening with a wall of bricks: The owners of the old factory bricked up the windows to keep animals and curious children out. The builders bricked the old doorway up and covered it with drywall.