lock down

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To secure (something). transitive
    — But even as the fireball races both skywards and downwards, the mortally-wounded Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, crawls over to a voicepipe despite the loss of both legs and orders the magazines locked down and flooded. It's his last act on this Earth; his body will be found later, next to the voicepipe.
  2. To secure (something).; To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety. transitive
    — Police have the area locked down until the situation is all-clear.
  3. To secure (something).; To limit the use of (a computer network) to only users with permission. transitive
  4. To make (an arrangement) secure, definite, or permanent; to fix. transitive
  5. To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship. slang,transitive
    — It took me some time, but I finally locked her down.
  6. To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in a downhill direction. intransitive

词形变化

locks down present,singular,third-person locking down participle,present locked down participle,past locked down past
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