lock up
Put behind bars
Lock up means to secure something by locking: Lock up the house before you leave.
It extends to imprisonment: They locked him up for ten years.
In finance, assets are locked up when they can't be easily accessed or sold.
A lockup is a jail cell or holding area.
Things can also lock up by seizing or freezing: The brakes locked up on the wet road.
imprison
Detention facility
- incarcerateConfine in detention
- detainHold in custody
- arrestSeize by law
- custodyProtective care or control
confinement · cell · inmate · detention · behind bars · throw away the key · sentence · convict
jail
Detention facility
- incarcerateConfine in detention
- detainHold in custody
- arrestSeize by law
custody · confinement · cell · inmate · detention · behind bars · throw away the key · sentence · convict · remand
vault
Secure storage chamber
latch · chain · safeguard · protection · fasten · seal · batten down · fortify · barricade · gate
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- restrainhold back, suppress, hold in, keep in, keep down
- securingfasten, secure, latch, bolt, buckle
- malfunction signscrash, freeze, stall, glitch, bug
- malfunctionsbroken, defective, glitch, faulty, error
- closing timeclosing time, clock out, end of shift, quitting time, clocking out