Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lock_away

1 sense of lock away

Sense 1
lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up -- (place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe")
       => confine -- (prevent from leaving or from being removed)