All lock up synonyms

verb lock up

• sit on — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hush up — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• lie low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• stow away — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
• take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• hang on — the way in which a thing hangs.
• keep out — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• stay put — 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.
• rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
• get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
• put away — 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.
• scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• take away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
• throw the book at — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
• take up — the act of taking.
• bogart — to monopolize or keep (something, esp a marijuana cigarette) to oneself selfishly
• corner the market — dominate trade
• keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
• sew up — to join or attach by stitches.
• rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
• make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• zing — vitality, animation, or zest.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• jam up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
• pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• throw cold water on — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• institutionalize — to make institutional.
• hogtie — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
• shut up — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• close in — If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them.
• fence in — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
• shut in — closed; fastened up: a shut door.