Word Study
rope off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb rope off has 1 sense
- rope off(v = verb.contact) cordon off, rope in - divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred" is one way to close in, enclose, inclose, shut in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
THESAURUS
rope off
bound, circle in, circumscribe, cordon, cordon off, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, determine, enclose, fix, isolate, lay off, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, quarantine, seal off, seclude, segregate, separate, set the limit, specify, stake out, surround
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