1.[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to put sandbags around a building in order to protect it from a flood or explosion 〔在建筑物周围〕堆沙袋,用沙袋封堵
2.[transitiveT] to treat someone unfairly in order to prevent them from doing something or being successful 〔为不让某人做某事或阻止其成功而〕不公平对待,粗暴对待
Examples from the Corpus
sandbag• Symmetricalcoils of barbed wireobstructed most streets, and houses were sloppily sandbagged.• Residents continue to sandbag about 25 homes to protect them from the river.• Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a suddenrecollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom.• Morley accused Franklin of sandbagging him by not telling him the full story.• So the 49ers were sandbagging in the preseason, throwing their fourth-stringers to the wolves and saving the first-stringers for the season.• Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach.• About 1 a.m., sandbagging is finished.• Haller said all sandbagging was finished about 1 a.m.