transitive. To lock (a person) in a room, building, etc.; (also) to lock or shut out. Also figurative.

transitive. To enclose, hem in, surround; to cover; to contain. Also in to louk in clay (lead,etc.): to bury.

In general use: To close, fasten, secure, lock, etc. Also with up.

transitive. To fasten or lock (as with a bolt, etc.). Cf. pin, v.1 1. (In quots. figurative) Obsolete.

to pen in.

transitive. spec. To enclose or pen (an animal or bird); to impound (livestock). Now English regional (rare).

transitive. To put in a place of confinement, make a prisoner of; to keep in a prison or other place of confinement; to detain in custody; imprison.

To shut up or confine (a person) in a prison or other place. Also figurative.

To shut up, block up (a person or thing in a place). Also with adverb in, up. Obsolete.

transitive. To restrict, limit, confine.

transitive. To enclose, confine, shut up.

To bar, barricade, confine (a person); to obstruct (a way).

transitive. To shut up or confine.

To keep in close custody or confinement; to put in ward, imprison. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.

To shut up in a room or building; to seclude, imprison. Obsolete except with reference to monastic seclusion.

transitive. To enclose or confine in a locked room, box, etc.; to keep securely under lock and key. Frequently with prepositional phrase as…

transitive. To confine, shut up, or seclude; = reclude, v. Also reflexive.

transitive. To confine, to imprison; to hem in; (also) to shut up; spec. to put (an animal) in a pound, fold, etc.; to impound. Now rare except as…

To shut (a person or thing) out or in. Obsolete.

To restrain by confinement.

To enclose, confine.

transitive. To shut up (a person) within walls; to imprison; to confine as in a prison or fortress; = immure, v. 2. Frequently with up. Also figur…

transitive. To shut in or pen; to confine, limit. Frequently with up. Cf. pind, v. 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To shut away, confine, enclose; to hide, conceal. Usually in passive. Also reflexive: to shut or hide oneself away. Also figurative. Obs…

transitive. To prevent access to or confine (a person or thing) by shutting a door, etc. or closing a receptacle. Also reflexive.

transitive. To incarcerate.

To confine (a person or animal) in prison or in some kind of restraint; to keep in seclusion; to hem (a person) round in order to prevent his…

To fasten in, shut up, or confine securely (a person or thing) by means of bars. Also transferred and figurative.

To hem in, so as to prevent escape or free movement; to confine, restrict.

To confine or bound by an environment of any kind; to enclose, shut in, limit, restrain, imprison. Now rarely without adverb complement, most usually…

To shut in, enclose, confine (a person or thing) as in a pound.

To restrict, confine. Obsolete.

transitive. To place in or as in a chamber; to shut up, confine, enclose (literal and figurative). Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To enclose or confine in a locked room, box, etc.; to keep securely under lock and key; (now frequently) to imprison. Also figurative.

transferred. To confine (persons) within small space; to shut up within irksomely narrow limits; to cage, cabin.

transitive. To shut up in prison; to put in confinement; to imprison.

transitive. To confine in, or as in, a cage; to imprison.

transitive. With up, in the same sense. Also figurative.

transferred and figurative. To lodge, shut up; to put in a place of retreat or confinement.

with up; also in, together.

transitive. To confine in, or as in, a cage.

transitive. To shut up or confine in an enclosure; to confine within any bounds or limits, material or otherwise; occasionally with up. Also figur…

In more general sense: To confine.

transferred and figurative. To shut in; to immure or imprison; to confine.

In extended or figurative use. transitive. To close tightly; to fasten, to confine, to keep under restraint. Often with up.

To shut up or enclose within walls; to imprison; to confine as in a prison or fortress.

To shut up apart, to enclose or confine so as to prevent access or influence from without. Const. from. Also, to enclose or confine (a material…

transitive. To lock up.

Nautical. To fasten down (persons) under the hatches for confinement or safety.

To shut up, imprison, immure, put or keep in detention. Const. in (formerly, transitional from 3, †into).

transitive. To confine in or as in a jail; to imprison, confine.

To enclose or contain as in a bier or tomb; to entomb.

To confine. rare.

transitive. To enclose; to confine; to imprison. Also with up. Usually in passive. Obsolete.

transitive. To confine as in a ‘cub’; to coop up.

transitive. To seize and confine; to keep or hold in custody; to imprison. Now also: to confine securely; to ensure the secure confinement or…

= incarcerate, v.

transitive. With adverb or prepositional phrase. To shut (a person or animal) into or out of a place; to confine (a person or animal) in a place.

transitive. To keep shut up or confined.

transitive. To confine or shut up as in a nunnery; to cause to take vows as a nun.

transitive. To confine or shut up in a place. Chiefly with up. Obsolete.

transitive. To isolate or confine (a person), frequently as a punishment; to isolate (a nation) politically, economically, etc.; to boycott, isolate…

transitive. figurative. To restrict, constrain, or confine (a person); to tie down. Obsolete.

transitive. To confine in a penfold (figurative in quot.).

transitive. To coop up.

transitive. To shut up in, or as in, an oubliette.

transitive. To shut up, imprison.

To shut up in, or as in, a corral; to confine.

transitive. More generally: to place or leave in a position from which one cannot escape. Usually in passive. Also figurative.

transitive. British slang (originally Criminals' slang). to bang up: to lock up, imprison, detain in custody; to confine (a prisoner) to a cell…

transitive (frequently in passive). To confine all of the prisoners of (a prison, cell block, etc.) to cells for an extended period of time, usually…