lock up

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Synonyms: lick up, lockup, mock up, cock up, block up, look up, clock up, lock-up, locks up, rock up

Antonyms: lick up, lockup, mock up, cock up, block up, look up, clock up, lock-up, locks up, rock up

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Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[imprison]] or [[incarcerate]] (someone).
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[put away|put (something) away]] in a [[locked]] location for [[safekeeping]]; {{lb|en|occasionally, chiefly humorously}} to [[sequester]] (a person) in a similar way.
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[close]] (and often lock) all [[door]]s and [[window]]s (of a place) [[securely]].
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[lock]] (a door, window, etc.).
5. {{lb|en|intransitive|computing}} To [[cease]] [[respond]]ing.
6. {{lb|en|transitive|computing}} To cause (a [[program]]) to [[cease]] [[respond]]ing or to [[freeze]].
7. {{lb|en|intransitive|mechanics}} To [[stop]] [[move|moving]]; to [[seize]].
8. To lose one's forward momentum; to [[freeze]].
9. {{lb|en|intransitive|motor racing}} To (mistakenly) [[cause]] or [[have]] one of one's [[wheel]]s to lock up (stop spinning).
10. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[invest]] in something [[long term]].
11. {{lb|en|intransitive|boating}} To travel through a [[flight]] of [[lock]]s on a [[waterway]] in an [[uphill]] direction.
12. {{lb|en|obsolete|printing}} To fasten [[quoin]]s securely with a [[mallet]] and a [[shooting stick]].

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