lock up

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. secure by locking (Freq. 3)
- lock up the house before you go on vacation
• Derivationally related forms:
lockup
• Hypernyms:
fasten, fix, secure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (Freq. 3)
- The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
- She locked her jewels in the safe
• Syn:
lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away
• Derivationally related forms:
lockup
• Hypernyms:
confine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP