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View definitions for lock up

lock up

verb as in corral

Strongest match

Strong matches

verb as in put away

noun as in lockup

Strongest match

Weak match

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A detainee who goes by the name of Loba has been locked up in the California City facility since Aug. 28.

“The majority of the day is being locked up.”

According to the reports, members of Los Lobos Box then stormed into a wing where their rivals were locked up and attacked them.

From BBC

And yet when Palestinians talk about possible future leaders, they end up talking about a man who has been locked up for almost a quarter of a century.

From BBC

While he said not all those subject to them would otherwise have been released immediately, "there was no longer a need to have people locked up like this".

From BBC

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

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