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Definition of 'lock up'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) lock up
secure by locking
"lock up the house before you go on vacation"

2. (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"

Definition of 'lock up'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) lock up
to put in prison
He should be locked up for what he did.

2. lock up
to fasten the locks of a building when you leave it
Don't forget to lock up.; I'll lock the house up.

Translation of 'lock up'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to confine or prevent from leaving or being taken away by using a lock to lock up a prisoner / one's jewellery.
Afrikaans: opsluit	Arabic: يُقْفِل على، يَحْبِس	Bulgarian: заключвам
Brazilian: trancar	Czech: dát pod zámek	German: einschließen
Danish: spærre inde; låse inde	Greek: φυλακίζω, κλειδώνω	Spanish: cerrar con llave
Estonian: luku taha panema	Farsi: حبس کردن	Finnish: panna lukkojen taa
French: mettre sous clef	Hebrew: לִנעוֹל	Hindi: बंद कर देना
Croatian: zatvoriti	Hungarian: becsuk; elzár	Indonesian: mengurung
Icelandic: læsa inni; setja í læsta	Italian: mettere sotto chiave	Japanese: 監禁する
Korean: 감금하다	Lithuanian: uždaryti, užrakinti	Latvian: saslēgt; ieslēgt
Malay: mengurung	Dutch: opsluiten	Norwegian: låse inne, sperre inne
Polish: wziąć pod klucz, zamknąć	Persian: حبس کردن	Pashto: حبس كول،زندانى كول
Portuguese: fechar	Romanian: aînchide	Russian: спрятать под замок
Slovak: dať pod zámok	Slovenian: zapreti	Serbian: zaključati
Swedish: låsa in	Thai: ขัง	Turkish: kilitlemek, kilit altına
Taiwanese: 監禁，鎖藏	Ukrainian: посадити у в'язницю; зами	Urdu: حراست میں رکھنا
Vietnamese: khóa cẩn thận	Chinese: 锁住，关押
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