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POUND UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

Example:

The prisoners are safely pounded

Synonyms:

pound; pound up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pound up" is one way to...):

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

Verb group:

impound; pound (place or shut up in a pound)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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