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English

1. 🔊 any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
2. 🔊 a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
3. 🔊 a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
4. 🔊 enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level
5. 🔊 a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
6. 🔊 a strand or cluster of hair
7. 🔊 become rigid or immoveable
   “The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise”
8. 🔊 fasten with a lock
   “lock the bike to the fence”
9. 🔊 hold in a locking position
   “He locked his hands around her neck”
10. 🔊 build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
11. 🔊 hold fast (in a certain state)
    “He was locked in a laughing fit”
12. 🔊 pass by means through a lock in a waterway
13. 🔊 become engaged or intermeshed with one another
    “They were locked in embrace”
14. 🔊 place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
    “The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend”
15. 🔊 keep engaged
    “engaged the gears”

Spanish

1. 🔊 cerradura lock
2. 🔊 cerraja lock
3. 🔊 chapa lock
4. 🔊 candar to lock
5. 🔊 cerrar con llave to lock
6. 🔊 engrilletar to lock
7. 🔊 llavear to lock
8. 🔊 llavir to lock
9. 🔊 loquear to lock
10. 🔊 candado lock, padlock
11. 🔊 cerrar to lock, to lock up
12. 🔊 trancar to lock, latch, bolt
13. 🔊 mechón lock, tuft, strand (of hair)
14. 🔊 acerrojar to lock, bolt, lock up (fasten with a lock)

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