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

1 sense of pound up

Sense 1
pound, pound up -- (shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded")
       => restrain, confine, hold -- (to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom")