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Verb
Coming into possession of
Present participle for to imprison or incarcerate someone
Present participle for to keep something out of sight
(
of a door or opening
)
Present participle for to close so as to protect from unauthorized entry
Present participle for to make a pledge or guarantee
Present participle for to prohibit or interdict the use, participation or inclusion of
Present participle for to have in one's possession
Present participle for to tie something up, such as with a rope or string
Present participle for to put securely in place
Present participle for to put aside or into storage, typically as a result of having collected a surplus of
Noun
An act of capturing someone and placing them in forcible detention
The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody
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Verb
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Coming into possession of
getting
acquiring
obtaining
coming by
coming to have
coming into possession of
receiving
gaining
earning
winning
coming into
coming in for
taking possession of
taking receipt of
buying
purchasing
procuring
possessing oneself of
securing
gathering
collecting
picking up
appropriating
amassing
building up
hooking
netting
landing
achieving
attaining
getting hold of
getting hands on
grabbing
bagging
getting one's hands on
getting one's mitts on
scoring
snagging
gleaning
nabbing
collaring
having
copping
latching onto
racking up
accessing
swinging
inheriting
getting your hands on
garnering
capturing
reaping
realizing
US
drawing
carrying
taking
annexing
bringing in
knocking down
realising
UK
grasping
pulling down
cinching
finding
insuring
ensuring
guarantying
assuring
guaranteeing
icing
wangling
catching
hustling
making
corralling
scaring up
getting possession of
making sure of
chalking up
gaining access
winning possession of
giving security
seizing
snaring
nailing
trapping
snatching
snapping up
glomming
grappling
nobbling
rapping
pulling in
accomplishing
reaching
clinching
laying hold of
deriving
notching up
ensnaring
hitting
clocking up
logging
hauling in
fulfilling
apprehending
arresting
ringing up
clearing
detaining
entrapping
pocketing
taking home
laying hands on
producing
taking into custody
carrying off
pinching
nicking
doing
raking in
scooping
taking in
grossing
arriving at
busting
pulling off
taking prisoner
banking
recording
wresting
pulling
striking
lifting
accumulating
prehending
walking off with
taking hold of
bringing home
grabbing hold of
walking away with
coming away with
entangling
holding
enmeshing
restraining
ensnarling
fetching
effecting
abducting
consummating
entoiling
immeshing
meshing
getting one's fingers on
taking up
pouncing on
rounding up
feeling your collar
scraping together
receiving a salary of
taking home earnings of
accepting
gripping
registering
tangling
occupying
completing
getting paid
accruing
managing
compassing
claiming
wrapping up
taking captive
harvesting
conquering
lassoing
getting a hold of
carrying out
catching up
jumping at
bringing to fruition
seizing on
leaping about
taking advantage of
acting on
having conferred on one
reeling in
placing under arrest
turning in
acting upon
knocking up
executing
clasping
clutching
imprisoning
adopting
booking
effectuating
plucking
meeting
assuming
finishing
yanking
reserving
clenching
locating
perfecting
incarcerating
extracting
establishing
kidnaping
kidnapping
bringing
getting into one's hands
potting
retrieving
culling
ambushing
fixing
tallying
returning
cleaning up
reifying
recovering
polishing off
grabbing at
getting done
drumming up
taking hostage
taking possession
latching on to
bringing off
blagging
lucking
bringing about
seizing hold of
laying a trap for
coming across
throwing in jail
taking in for questioning
carrying through
gathering up
grasping with both hands
succeeding in
following through with
putting in jail
going for
contracting
snarling
swiping
profiting with
understanding
knowing
stealing
captivating
feeling
yielding
jagging
beaching
touching
succeeding in finding
snapping
sensing
stopping
walking away
clocking
notching
making it to
putting behind bars
covering
searching out
coming up with
glomming onto
maximising
UK
maximizing
US
eking out
going
agreeing to receive
accepting delivery of
taking into one's possession
making a profit
cashing in on
making a profit of
realizing a profit of
paying
laying claim to
holding out for
hitting up
tracking down
tracing
tracking
sourcing
bearing
recouping
enjoying
retaining
owning
possessing
eliciting
capitalizing on
catching hold of
enlisting
ameliorating
advancing
laying
commandeering
commanding
tying up
cornering
profiting
grasping hold of
getting to
rising to
climbing to
catching at
clinging to
prevailing upon
buying out
soliciting
inducing
bringing around
managing to get
making a haul
buying up
making use of
laying up
gobbling up
scraping up
getting at
saving
hoarding
begging borrow or steal
salvaging
salvageing
falling to the lot
meeting with
encountering
ingathering
falling upon
happening upon
stumbling upon
coming upon
getting as a result
getting in
working
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
grabbing with both hands
swooping on
welcoming with open arms
accepting eagerly
going for enthusiastically
swooping down on
showing enthusiasm for
picking off
betrapping
boxing in
setting a trap for
benetting
performing
using
perpetrating
concluding
actualizing
utilizing
US
utilising
UK
filling
fixing up
sorting out
knocking off
arranging
negotiating
engineering
conducting
committing
honouring
UK
honoring
US
springeing
springing
monopolizing
US
trammelling
trammeling
running to ground
waylaying
ambuscading
running to earth
jailing
US
making hay
doing a bang-up job
nailing it
doing justice to
making it
putting it over
taking care of
satisfying
putting the tin lid on
bringing to completion
doing one proud
delivering on
getting someplace
living up to
discharging
sewing up
fulfilling one's potential
making good on
putting through
keeping faith with
getting there
doing the trick
following through on
prosecuting
rousting
gaoling
UK
putting the cuffs on
tossing in jail
putting the arm on
preoccupying
engaging
availing oneself of
wrenching
prising
extricating
taking by force
grabbed away
clapping hands on
taking a grip of
monopolising
UK
finalizing
US
polishing
refining
capping
crowning
getting out of the way
putting the final touches to
topping off
rounding off
finishing up
finalising
UK
putting the finishing touches to
making short work of
determining
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to imprison or incarcerate someone
imprisoning
incarcerating
gaoling
UK
jailing
US
detaining
impounding
interning
remanding
caging
confining
immuring
penning
mewing
shutting in
shutting up
cooping up
penning in
putting away
putting in jail
putting in prison
throwing into irons
walling in
fencing in
holding captive
mewing up
putting behind bars
putting in chains
putting into irons
sending down
clapping in irons
putting inside
sending to prison
putting under lock and key
holding
enclosing
jugging
committing
holding prisoner
locking in
hemming in
corralling
locking away
closing in
encasing
hedging
restraining
housing
closeting
cooping
enveloping
pounding
encaging
banging up
boxing in
taking into custody
constraining
keeping
trapping
including
sending up
keeping under lock and key
holding in custody
bounding
circumscribing
binding
inclosing
fencing
boxing up
muring
fencing off
putting on ice
blockading
railing in
blocking off
putting into detention
arresting
encircling
institutionalizing
US
encompassing
circling
stockading
containing
consigning
restricting
icing
quarantining
taking away
secluding
cordoning off
sealing off
keeping in custody
bottling up
putting in irons
barricading
cloistering
walling
hemming
institutionalising
UK
shutting away
cutting off
taking prisoner
mewing in
hedging in
sending up the river
sequestering
walling off
caging in
limiting
kettling
isolating
insulating
throwing in dungeon
prisoning
throwing away the keys
enfolding
covering
enshrouding
environing
throwing in jail
booking
railroading
putting in solitary
entombing
sentencing to prison
enjailing
engaoling
carcerating
assigning
sending
certifying
delivering
putting in custody
trammelling
trammeling
keeping captive
holding hostage
surrounding
keeping under constraint
keeping under custody
holding under custody
ringing
apprehending
engirding
hog-tying
enslaving
flanking
fringing
compassing
edging
cribbing
walling up
girding
wreathing
embracing
girdling
clipping someone's wings
skirting
barring
bordering
seizing
capturing
withholding
busting
nabbing
taking
sealing up
shutting
closing up
closing off
shutting off
locking
buttonholing
picking up
nicking
copping
miring
remanding in custody
hauling in
pulling in
nailing
placing in custody
pinching
collaring
taking in
feeling your collar
doing
reserving
putting into custody
more ❯
“I know it can be tough to
lock up
your beloved pet when they always have the run of the house.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to keep something out of sight
hiding
concealing
secreting
burying
caching
camouflaging
ensconcing
stashing
hiving
storing away
stowing away
keeping in a hiding place
putting in a hiding place
keeping out of sight
putting out of sight
salting away
tucking away
putting out of the way
Verb
▲
(
of a door or opening
)
Present participle for to close so as to protect from unauthorized entry
securing
fastening
closing
shutting
bolting
locking
sealing
chaining
padlocking
battening down
boarding up
make fasting
barring
latching
closing up
fastening securely
clamping
battening
deadbolting
shutting up
anchoring
fixing
binding
tying
rivetting
riveting
lashing
tethering
clasping
tightening
snecking
buttoning
immobilising
UK
immobilizing
US
clinching
fastening down
covering up
slamming
making secure
making
steeking
turning the key
fortifying
enclosing
caging
buttoning up
drawing
closing out
putting the lid on
walling off
safeguarding
making safe
deadlocking
snibbing
sealing up
sticking down
screening
pulling to
pushing to
drawing to
shuttering
putting up the shutter
blocking
blockading
obstructing
guarding
defending
protecting
strengthening
barricading
closing off
blocking off
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a pledge or guarantee
ensuring
guaranteeing
assuring
confirming
establishing
insuring
providing
certifying
effecting
validating
verifying
arranging
setting out
warranting
affirming
asserting
asseverating
attesting
authenticating
avouching
cinching
clinching
committing
contracting
corroborating
guarantying
icing
nailing down
pledging
promising
pronouncing
sealing
securing
setting the seal on
sewing up
stating
swearing
vouching
witnessing
averring
avowing
declaring
endorsing
making safe
locking on
showing
testifying
vouching for
completing
setting
substantiating
making certain of
making sure of
having a lock on
knowing for certain
locking in
putting on ice
making certain
settling
consummating
concluding
closing
finalizing
US
wrapping up
closing out
finalising
UK
protecting
indemnifying
winning
seizing
nailing
deciding
putting away
coming away with
finishing off
walking away with
walking off with
seeing to it
ascertaining
checking
seeing
double-checking
doing not forget to
satisfying oneself
taking care
capping
stamping
shaking hands on
tying up
winding up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to prohibit or interdict the use, participation or inclusion of
prohibiting
forbidding
banning
outlawing
interdicting
proscribing
barring
disallowing
vetoing
enjoining
embargoing
restraining
tabooing
criminalising
UK
criminalizing
US
debarring
blocking
corking
excluding
forfending
freezing
halting
inhibiting
killing
making illegal
nixing
ruling out
spiking
stymieing
zinging
bottling up
boxing in
hanging up
holding up
jamming up
placing an embargo on
putting down
shutting out
tying up
keeping lid on
putting half nelson on
throwing cold water on
pouring cold water on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to have in one's possession
possessing
holding
commanding
enjoying
having
owning
retaining
bearing
carrying
hogging
inholding
keeping
maintaining
sitting on
having in your possession
having to one's name
cornering the market
dominating
controlling
cornering
engrossing
bogarting
absorbing
exercising
cartelizing
syndicating
devouring
exploiting
managing
monopolising
UK
monopolizing
US
owning exclusively
exercising a monopoly over
taking up
exercising control
keeping to oneself
tying up
sucking up
keeping to yourself
having sole rights in
taking over
having all to oneself
gaining control over
sewing up
gaining dominance over
having exclusive rights in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tie something up, such as with a rope or string
tying up
binding
tying
lashing
trussing
fastening
fettering
joining
shackling
lacing
leashing
trammelling
trammeling
taping
fixing together
hog-tying
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put securely in place
securing
fixing
fastening
hitching
sticking
pinning
affixing
anchoring
annexing
appending
binding
bonding
catching
clamping
connecting
coupling
joining
linking
mooring
nailing
positioning
setting
tacking
clipping
gluing
US
glueing
UK
lashing
riveting
rivetting
stapling
adjusting
buttoning
clinching
tying
tightening
cementing
pinioning
settling
battening down
buttoning down
hooking on
tying down
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put aside or into storage, typically as a result of having collected a surplus of
storing
keeping
hoarding
stockpiling
stowing
saving
caching
depositing
reserving
stashing
husbanding
placing
putting
accumulating
amassing
cumulating
planting
stocking
archiving
collecting
gathering
holding
packing
preserving
tucking
conserving
garnering
mothballing
parking
retaining
warehousing
banking
burying
ensiling
hiding
hiving
hutching
maintaining
repositing
siloing
squirreling
US
treasuring
packing up
putting aside
putting away
laying by
packing away
putting by
putting down
putting up
setting aside
squirreling away
stashing away
keeping in reserve
laying aside
laying away
laying in
loading up
locking away
putting in storage
putting in store
stocking up on
laying up
putting into storage
putting to one side
rolling up
salting away
socking away
stocking up with
stowing away
getting in supplies of
tidying away
tidying up
saving for rainy day
putting aside for a rainy day
putting away for a rainy day
pigeonholing
storing up
securing
heaping up
piling up
earmarking
stocking up
scrimping
assembling
allocating
withholding
concealing
building up
holding back
keeping back
dedicating
buying up
hiding away
scraping together
acquiring
scaring up
rounding up
piling
lodging
putting aside for rainy day
hanging on to
tucking away
saving up
racking up
running up
picking up
housing
devoting
totting up
stacking up
stacking
sparing
bottling
shelving
regulating
investing
filing
accruing
budgeting
holding onto
shutting away
building up stocks
heaping
using sparingly
mounting up
hanging onto
setting by
putting by for a rainy day
managing thriftily
bringing together
using economically
economizing on
saving for a rainy day
loading up on
sealing up
drawing together
keeping safe
deferring
sustaining
buffering
economizing
US
secreting
consigning
entrusting
laying
positing
stuffing
loading
economising
UK
consecrating
committing
containing
skimping
controlling
racking
filing away
aggregating
keeping a place for
mustering
putting in the hole
accreting
leaving behind
amounding
reholstering
keeping on hand
getting hold of
putting in the bank
keeping out
giving up to
culling
keeping intact
keeping forever
topping off
storing away
concentrating
adding
hilling
going easy on
massing
putting together
getting together
gathering in
adding up
pulling in
bulking up
clearing away
cleaning up
crating
possessing
lumping
safeguarding
grouping
clearing up
holstering
bunching
repressing
stifling
dumping
retaining possession of
holding on to
keeping possession of
keeping hold of
holding fast to
keeping for oneself
holding in
laying down
clinging to
putting in a trunk
boxing up
putting in a case
keeping to yourself
more ❯
Noun
▲
An act of capturing someone and placing them in forcible detention
imprisonment
capturing
detaining
confining
imprisoning
immuring
incarcerating
gaoling
UK
jailing
US
quarantining
Noun
▲
The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody
detention
imprisonment
incarceration
confinement
captivity
internment
custody
immurement
restraint
detainment
durance
hold
duress
arrest
porridge
apprehension
bust
detainer
remand
pinch
nab
quarantine
committal
arrestation
pickup
retention
withholding
house arrest
holding pen
thrall
impoundment
thraldom
prison
bonds
constraint
gaol
UK
jail
US
trammels
immuration
bondage
thralldom
fetters
time
chokey
penal servitude
hard labour
isolation
solitary confinement
jailing
US
gaoling
UK
servitude
enslavement
holding
subjugation
vassalage
lockdown
subjection
serfdom
chains
slavery
enthrallment
shackles
restraints
entombment
limbo
bird
sentence
jaildom
term
capture
seizure
appropriation
collar
arrestment
bag
preventive custody
snare
hook
nail
taking into custody
protective custody
nick
pull in
restraining
pick up
run in
sequestering
grab
more ❯
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