97 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ lˈɒkɪŋ], [ lˈɒkɪŋ], [ l_ˈɒ_k_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for locking:

• act (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• closing (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for locking

Homophones for locking

Hyponyms for locking

Synonyms for Locking:

• n.

  • act (noun)
  • lockup,
  • locking.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • dance,
  • berlin wall,
  • protection.

• v.

  • closing (verb)
  • shutting,
  • blocking,
  • closing,
  • joining,
  • Bolting,
  • fastening,
  • Securing,
  • jamming,
  • stopping,
  • Barricading,
  • sealing,
  • Latching.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • engagement,
  • closing off,
  • braking,
  • Chartering,
  • Staying,
  • quietening,
  • lagging,
  • engrossing,
  • Discarding,
  • hooking,
  • enlisting,
  • operating,
  • spiraling,
  • absorbing,
  • Damming,
  • Prosecuting,
  • lock out,
  • Manoeuvring,
  • Clasping,
  • Hiring,
  • blockading,
  • lock,
  • Stranding,
  • curling,
  • jailing,
  • Bracketing,
  • Occupying,
  • switching,
  • Hushing,
  • intertwining,
  • Remanding,
  • Keying,
  • Stilling,
  • hugging,
  • Affiancing,
  • Plighting,
  • tossing,
  • engaging,
  • enmeshing,
  • controlling,
  • Bearding,
  • functioning,
  • Employing,
  • penitentiary,
  • pursuing,
  • lacing,
  • padlock,
  • Padlocking,
  • Disposing,
  • gaoling,
  • spiralling,
  • interlocking,
  • Obstructing,
  • sluicing,
  • brushing,
  • prison,
  • Betrothing,
  • Linking,
  • jail,
  • coiling,
  • meshing,
  • bracing,
  • grappling,
  • interlacing,
  • happening,
  • Waging,
  • barring,
  • renting,
  • Incarcerating,
  • Immuring,
  • entwining,
  • rolling,
  • Silencing,
  • Whelming,
  • embracing,
  • Clamping,
  • Jugging,
  • Imprisoning,
  • Wisping,
  • Leasing.

Paraphrases for Locking:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    lock.
  • Proper noun, singular
    lock, locks.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lock.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    locks.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    unlocking.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    interlocking, Latching, phase-lock.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    lock-up, lock-out.
  • Proper noun, singular
    locked, lock-up, lock-out.
  • Noun, plural
    Embargoes, Keys, sanctions, closures, bottlenecks, blockades, blockages, obstacles.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    blockage, freezing, gating, lock-up, lock-in, lock-out.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    blockading, closing, concluding, costing, freezing, joining, laying, locating, putting, shutting, stalling, standing, stay, stopping, system, thwarting, unwavering, Attaching, Bridging, Clamping, Clogging, Establishing, Obstructing, Resisting, Restraining, Condoning, Precluding, Staying, Storing, contacting, targeting, decommissioning, locked-in.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    lockout.
  • Proper noun, singular
    closing, lockout, lockdown.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    foreclosure, interlock, lockout, lockdown.

Homophones for Locking:

• logomach, licence, lysimachus, laziness, lessing, like kings, losings, likening, liking, licensee, loganiaceae, leishmaniasis, looking, leishmaniosis, loginess, licking, lacking, laconic, license, logging, lake seneca, lissomeness, lignosae, lichenes, lagging, lychnis, Lake Onega, loquaciousness, Leakiness, lashing, logginess, legging, laughing jackass, leguminious, lacewing, lushness, lessening, lysogenic, looseness, lacing, laxness, lashings, laughing gas, leaching, ligneous, lysenko, luging, lozenge, licencee, Logomachy, leucogenes, likeness, Luckiness, loosening, leguminosae, loch ness, lysogenize, lysimachia, leguminous, lusciousness, lawlessness, laughing, lousiness, lake nyasa.

Hyponym for Locking:

• n.

  • act
    protection.