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

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pound; pound up

Context example:

The prisoners are safely pounded

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