All lock up synonyms
lock up
L l verb lock up
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- rule out β a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- censor β If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
- freeze β to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deprive β If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
- cancel β If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- proscribe β to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- deny β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- preclude β to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- oppose β to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- stymie β Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- veto β the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- forestall β to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
- spike β an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
- obviate β to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
- idle β not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- nix β nothing.
- wall β any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- interdict β Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
- debar β If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
- occult β of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- taboo β proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- forfend β to defend, secure, or protect.
- parlay β to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- capture β If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- accomplish β If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
- glean β to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- net β net income, profit, or the like.
- educe β to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
- acquire β If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
- snowball β a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- compass β A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
- reap β to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- clear β Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- inherit β to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.
- bag β A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought.
- fetch β to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- hog β a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- occupy β to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- corner β A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.