Meaning of hermetically seal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To seal with an airtight seal.
   transitive
2. To isolate from external influences or prevent escape from.
   transitive

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Examples

“They hermetically sealed the kettles to accelerate the cooking.”

“Some manufacturers isolated the electronic circuitry and hermetically sealed it in a metal capsule.”

“The glass stoppers were inserted; the bottles hermetically sealed; and, depositing them in a secret drawer of a small casket, she locked it, put the little key on a chain that she always wore of her uncle's hair; and, pressing it to her heart, exclaimed, "Now I am mistress of my fate in this world!"”

“We were hermetically sealing ourselves within the seemingly safe cocoon of groupthink.”

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