What is another word for locking?
97 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ lˈɒkɪŋ], [ lˈɒkɪŋ], [ l_ˈɒ_k_ɪ_ŋ]
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Synonyms for Locking:
n.
• act (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• closing (verb)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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
lock.
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Noun, singular or mass
lock.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
locks.
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Noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
unlocking.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
interlocking, Latching, phase-lock.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
lock-up, lock-out.
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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.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
lockout.
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Noun, singular or mass
foreclosure, interlock, lockout, lockdown.
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Adjective
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.
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act
protection.
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act
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