Lock up: v.tr. (word coming from en- and close).
The verb “to lock up” has several meanings:
1. Put in a place from which it is impossible to get out.
Lock a bird in a cage.
To lock someone up in a room, a house (lock up, cloister, cloister, confine, lock up; region. imprison).
Quote from the French writer Émile Henriot (1889-1961) “His father, to force him to write [Gautier], locked him away”.
Pronominal verb: He locks himself in the bathroom...
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