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lock up🔊

To imprison or incarcerate (someone).

📑 Synonyms: send away shut away

To put (something) away in a locked location for safekeeping; (occasionally, chiefly humorously) to sequester (a person) in a similar way.

To close (and often lock) all doors and windows (of a place) securely.

To lock (a door, window, etc.).

(computing) To cease responding.

(computing) To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.

(mechanics) To stop moving; to seize.

(of a wheel) To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.

To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.

(motor racing) To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).

To invest in something long term.

(boating) To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.

(printing) To fasten quoins securely with a mallet and a shooting-stick.