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Adjective locked has 1 sense
- barred, bolted, fast, latched, locked, secured - firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured"
Antonym: unfastened (indirect, via fastened)
Verb lock has 9 senses
- lock - fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
--1 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Antonyms: unlock
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- engage, mesh, lock, operate - keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
--2 is one way to move, displace
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- lock - become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
--3 is one way to engage
Antonyms: unlock
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- lock, interlock, interlace - hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
--4 is one way to hold, take hold
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- interlock, lock - become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
--5 is one way to embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze
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- lock - hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
--6 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
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- lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up - place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
--7 is one way to confine
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- lock - pass by means through a lock in a waterway
--8 is one way to pass, go through, go across
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- lock - build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
--9 is one way to construct, build, make
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