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View definitions for lock up

lock up

verb as in assure

verb as in cage

verb as in corral

Strongest match

Strong matches

verb as in put away

verb as in tie up

noun as in lockup

Strongest match

Weak match

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Example Sentences

The only way you are going to get on the floor is if you go out there, you lock up and you guard the best players.’

An autistic woman with a learning disability was wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital for 45 years, starting when she was just seven years old, the BBC has learned.

From BBC

More than 3,000 men in white jail-suits are currently locked up here - from murderers and rapists, to those doing time for lesser crimes like shoplifting and fraud.

From BBC

Townsend recalled how he and Moses were both locked up in a high-security module designated for young Black men whom law enforcement had labeled as Bloods.

"Crass content can be criticised if it offends you. However, you cannot have the state persecute and lock up people for offending your 'moral sentiments'," he wrote in a post on X.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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