cordon off

cordon something off

to mark off an area where people should not go with a rope, tape, ribbon, etc. The police cordoned the scene of the crime off, and we could not even get close. They cordoned off the area.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shula	-	Arabic
Katey	KAY-tee	English
Anar	-	Azerbaijani
Kazimierz	kah-ZEEM-yesh	Polish
Mustafa	moos-TAH-fah (Turkish)	Arabic, Turkish
Rustam	-	Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tajik