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CORDON OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide by means of a rope
Example:
The police roped off the area where the crime occurred
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cordon off" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
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