All lock up synonyms
lock up
L l verb lock up
- collect β If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- achieve β If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- take β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- commit β If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
- remand β to send back, remit, or consign again.
- repeat β repeat loop
- confirm β If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
- ratify β to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- insist β to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- assert β If someone asserts a fact or belief, they state it firmly.
- maintain β to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- profess β to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- declare β If you declare that something is true, you say that it is true in a firm, deliberate way. You can also declare an attitude or intention.
- guarantee β a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- sentence β Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- utilize β to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- absorb β If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- take over β the act of taking.
- forbid β to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
- insure β to guarantee against loss or harm.
- outlaw β a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- oblige β to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- require β to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- subdue β to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
- deter β To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- govern β to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- curtail β If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- keep down β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- fix β to repair; mend.
- insert β to put or place in: to insert a key in a lock.
- cement β Cement is a grey powder which is mixed with sand and water in order to make concrete.
- wrap β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- save β to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- hoard β a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- protect β to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- provide β to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- accumulate β When you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time.
- assure β If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
- stockpile β a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- safeguard β something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- deposit β A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
- put β to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pack β a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.