verb
- Fasten with a lock.
- usage: "lock the bike to the fence"
- synonyms: lock
- Keep engaged.
- usage: "engaged the gears"
- Become rigid or immoveable.
- usage: "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
- synonyms: lock
- Hold in a locking position.
- usage: "He locked his hands around her neck"
- Become engaged or intermeshed with one another.
- usage: "They were locked in embrace"
- Hold fast (in a certain state. )
- usage: "He was locked in a laughing fit"
- synonyms: lock
- Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.
- usage: "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
- Pass by means through a lock in a waterway.
- synonyms: lock
- Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels.
- synonyms: lock
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