Synonyms for lock-down
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
Related words
- Other spellings
- lock down lockdown
Forms
- Plural
- lock-downs → quarantines, holes, nails…
Example sentences
- hole Just once, I'd like to get a hole-in-one some day.
- nail There is enough iron in your body to make a nail.
- quarantine We've been asked to self-quarantine for two weeks.
By length
- 4 letters
- hole1, nail1
- 10 letters
- quarantine3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quarantine3 = 3 syllables).