English Explanatory Dictionary

lock down

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To secure (something).
To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.
To limit the use of (a computer network) to only users with permission.
To make (an arrangement) secure, definite, or permanent; to fix.
To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship.
To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in a downhill direction.

Word forms

lock down locks down locking down locked down

Antonyms

lock up

Related words

belock

Derived words

lock-down lockdown

Translations

Catalan: confinar French: confiner Galician: confinar Italian: confinare Polish: zamykać Polish: zamknąć Portuguese: confinar Spanish: confinar Spanish: cerrar Spanish: encerrar

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