locked

(verb) fasten with a lock. Synonyms: lock. Example: "Lock the bike to the fence."

(verb) keep engaged. Synonyms: engage, mesh, lock, operate. Example: "Engaged the gears."

(verb) become rigid or immoveable. Synonyms: lock. Example: "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise."

(verb) hold in a locking position. Synonyms: lock, interlock, interlace. Example: "He locked his hands around her neck."

(verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another. Synonyms: interlock, lock. Example: "They were locked in embrace."

(verb) hold fast (in a certain state). Synonyms: lock. Example: "He was locked in a laughing fit."

(verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape. Synonyms: lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up. Examples: "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend." "She locked her jewels in the safe."

(verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway. Synonyms: lock.

(verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels. Synonyms: lock.