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locked up
adjective as in booked
adjective as in captive
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adjective as in confined
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Statistician Nate Silver, who is white, was widely ridiculed for tweeting about his experience of being briefly locked up.
If it happened to me I would be locked up already and they would be trying to give me life.
And the insane cost of keeping so many nonviolent people locked up is an investment in failure.
Which means it also means death: You are locked up until you die.
After he continued publically fighting for his seat, he was locked up, and later died in detention.
Such skulls are locked up in many gentlemen's hearts and memories.
I locked up the shop—but first I cut off all the power and got a pig and smashed up Dr. Hudson's coils and transformers.
A lie is not locked up in a phrase, but must exist, if at all, in the mind of the speaker.
He was healed at Heilsberg, then locked up in an insane asylum at Stuttgart.
I know,' he cried, 'who is at the bottom of all this,' and forthwith locked up the King of France in the citadel of Peronne.
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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to locked up, such as: charged, jailed, imprisoned, taken into custody, and under arrest.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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