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  • verb to lock in
  • verb idiomatic to completely surround, enclose

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  • verb surround completely

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synonyms (169)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Diogenes
  2. Hieronymian
  3. Hieronymite
  4. Timon of Athens
  5. anchoress
  6. anchorite
  7. anchoritic
  8. apoplectic
  9. arthritic
  10. ascetic
  11. barred
  12. bedridden invalid
  13. beleaguer
  14. beleaguered
  15. beset
  16. besiege
  17. besieged
  18. blockade
  19. blockaded
  20. bottle up
  21. bound
  22. box in
  23. box up
  24. cabined
  25. cage
  26. caged
  27. case
  28. chamber
  29. check
  30. cloister
  31. cloistered
  32. cloistered monk
  33. close in
  34. closed-in
  35. closet cynic
  36. compass
  37. confine
  38. confined
  39. constrain
  40. consumptive
  41. contain
  42. coop
  43. coop in
  44. coop up
  45. cooped
  46. cordon
  47. cordon off
  48. cordoned
  49. cordoned off
  50. cork up
  51. corral
  52. corralled
  53. cramped
  54. crib
  55. cribbed
  56. desert fathers
  57. desert saints
  58. detain
  59. detained
  60. domestic
  61. dyspeptic
  62. encage
  63. encircle
  64. enclose
  65. enclosed
  66. encompass
  67. enshrine
  68. envelop
  69. epileptic
  70. eremite
  71. eremitic
  72. fence in
  73. fenced
  74. hedge in
  75. hedged
  76. hem
  77. hem in
  78. hemmed
  79. hermit
  80. hermitess
  81. hermitic
  82. hermitish
  83. hold
  84. hold in custody
  85. hold in restraint
  86. homebody
  87. house in
  88. immure
  89. immured
  90. impound
  91. impounded
  92. imprison
  93. imprisoned
  94. in confinement
  95. incarcerate
  96. incarcerated
  97. include
  98. incurable
  99. inhibit
  100. inpatient
  101. invalid
  102. isolationist
  103. jail
  104. jailed
  105. keep in
  106. keep in custody
  107. keep in detention
  108. kennel
  109. kept in
  110. leaguer
  111. leaguered
  112. loner
  113. marabout
  114. mew
  115. mew up
  116. mewed
  117. outcast
  118. outpatient
  119. paled
  120. pariah
  121. patient
  122. pen
  123. pen in
  124. pen up
  125. penned
  126. pent
  127. pent-up
  128. pillar saint
  129. pillarist
  130. pocket
  131. pound
  132. quarantine
  133. quarantined
  134. rail in
  135. railed
  136. recluse
  137. restrain
  138. restrained
  139. restrict
  140. restricted
  141. rheumatic
  142. seal up
  143. seclusionist
  144. sequestered
  145. shackle
  146. shrine
  147. shut in
  148. shut up
  149. sick person
  150. solitaire
  151. solitary
  152. solitudinarian
  153. spastic
  154. stable
  155. stay-at-home
  156. stylite
  157. sufferer
  158. surround
  159. terminal case
  160. the sick
  161. under restraint
  162. valetudinarian
  163. wall
  164. wall in
  165. walled
  166. walled-in
  167. wrap
  168. yard
  169. yard up

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. border
  2. environ
  3. ring
  4. skirt
  5. surround

hyponyms (36)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. bank
  2. border
  3. bower
  4. bury
  5. case
  6. casket
  7. cordon off
  8. corral
  9. dike
  10. dyke
  11. eat up
  12. embower
  13. encapsulate
  14. encase
  15. enshrine
  16. fence
  17. fence in
  18. fort
  19. fortify
  20. frame
  21. frame in
  22. glass
  23. glass in
  24. hedge
  25. hedge in
  26. immerse
  27. incase
  28. insert
  29. rope in
  30. rope off
  31. shrine
  32. swallow
  33. swallow up
  34. tuck
  35. wall in
  36. wall up

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