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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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“With any luck I’ll be back at the house long before then, smoking Ashton’s cigars, with Bertha safely locked up in the POE. ‘Finders keepers,’ he says.

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Online media Politico reported that soldiers working for the site locked up to 250 civilians in containers for three months accusing them of supporting the jihadists.

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He also said he was approached by a group and spat upon while locking up his office one evening, and was verbally abused and had objects thrown at him on a visit to Cardiff.

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They couldn't comprehend that their grandparents had arranged to have their own daughter locked up.

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“I can’t go target shooting with my wife. All my guns are in storage, locked up. I don’t even have access to them.”

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

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