1. (verb)lock fasten with a lock "lock the bike to the fence"
2. (verb)engage, mesh, lock, operate keep engaged "engaged the gears"
3. (verb)lock become rigid or immoveable "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
4. (verb)lock, interlock, interlace hold in a locking position "He locked his hands around her neck"
5. (verb)interlock, lock become engaged or intermeshed with one another "They were locked in embrace"
6. (verb)lock hold fast (in a certain state) "He was locked in a laughing fit"
7. (verb)lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
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