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All lock up synonyms

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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.
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