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Lock in   /lɑk ɪn/   Listen
Lock in

verb
1.
Close with or as if with a tight seal.  Synonym: seal in.
2.
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.  Synonyms: lock, lock away, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up.  "She locked her jewels in the safe"






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"Lock in" Quotes from Famous Books



... through a hostile country! I'll overtake thee, Khosrove, ere thou 'st reached Thy throne among the stars! Thou goest from love, And wilt look back and weep from every cloud; I on thy track shall pause not till our wings Stir the same air and lock in kisses flying! ... So pay my scorn? How then hadst loved if heart Had brought to heart its swelling measure? Then Our rosy hours had been the pick of time, And hung a flower 'mong withered centuries When every age had brought its reckoning in! O, why will we, some cubits ...
— Semiramis and Other Plays - Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet • Olive Tilford Dargan

... his head on one side like a bird, and nodding his white lock in a comical fashion, "it is all right; I ...
— Allan's Wife • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Lock in" :   confine



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