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POUND UP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pound up mean?

• POUND UP (verb)
The verb POUND UP has 1 sense:

1. shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

Familiarity information: POUND UP used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POUND UP (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pound up; pound

Context example:

The prisoners are safely pounded

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

confine; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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