LOCKED (UP) Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

locked (up)

verb

past tense of lock (up)

as in imprisoned

to put in or as if in prison if they catch you, they're going to lock you up and throw away the key!

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Already imprisoned for murdering a woman in Washington state, he was charged in 2008 with the three teenagers’ slayings.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Turk claims that Isbilen authorized the payment in hopes that Mountbatten-Windsor might be able to use his connections to help her husband, who has been imprisoned in Turkey since 2015.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

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Some prominent figures have been detained Officials jailed so far include Vucic’s chief of criminal police, Marko Kricak, and another senior police official, both suspected of abuse of office in connection with a high-profile murder investigation.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Officials jailed so far include Vucic’s chief of criminal police, Marko Kricak, and another senior police official, both suspected of abuse of office in connection with a high-profile murder investigation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026

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Meanwhile, more than 2,000 Jews from Radun and neighboring villages were interned in a ghetto; most were killed by the Germans and local police.

— Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
Thai has interned at The Boston Globe, the Des Moines Register and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and her reporting has been published in dozens of newspapers across the country.

— Talia Buford, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026

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Why are boys diagnosed around three to four times as often as girls, when the genes associated with autism aren’t confined to either group?

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2026
Born with spina bifida and confined to a wheelchair after his father was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Turek is a four-time Paralympian and two-time gold medalist in wheelchair basketball.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

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