to completely cover a large area of something such as a painting with one colour
to plan something large or complicated by organizing your general ideas for it
to stop someone from moving their car out of a place
Broad flat brushes are useful for blocking in colour.
His home was a fifth-floor apartment in a modern block in Pimlico, close to Ebury Street where Mozart had once lived.
Just block in the main points for now and we’ll sort the details out later.
Two days later, at the specified time, she entered a crumbling apartment block in Montmartre.
When I came back to the car park my car was blocked in.
Working through lunch, as usual, grabbing a sandwich Cheryl had brought in from the deli down the block in between phone calls.
blocks in
blocking in
blocked in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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