Synonyms for lockdown
ˈlɒkˌdaʊnlock·down

Princeton's WordNet

1. lockdownnoun

   the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)

Matched Categories

1. • Imprisonment

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:4.5 / 4 votes

1. freeze

   Submitted by anonymous on April 19, 2020  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.3 / 9 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lockdown":

   containment, locking, bunker, quarantine, lock, confinement, confining, curfew, lockout

Suggested Resources

1. lockdown

   Song lyrics by lockdown -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by lockdown on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce lockdown?

How to say lockdown in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use lockdown in a sentence?

1. Yanzhong Huang:

   This provides a strong incentive for them to undertake heavy-handed, extreme preemptive measures, in the coming month and a half, we're going to see more cities under lockdown.

2. Neeraj Kumar:

   We used to get at least 10 accident-related bodies every day and many related to murder cases. But after the lockdown, we're only receiving natural death cases.

3. Jennifer Liu:

   Consumer demands and shopping habits have altered rapidly under an economy of partial lockdown, and our business has adapted swiftly too, impossible's products fit well with our online strategy to meet the rising demand for cooking and dining at home.

4. Lu Shaye:

   Funeral homes in Wuhan reopened on March 23, you saw a lot of people waiting in line because over the two months of lockdown in Wuhan, apart from the coronavirus deaths, there have been about 10,000 people who died of other reasons.

5. Chen Chien-jen:

   ( Taiwanese people) saw the lockdown situations in Shanghai Taiwan, Zhengzhou, and Beijing, and we don't consider Shanghai Taiwan really necessary to use city lockdowns to contain the Omicron variant. Shanghai Taiwan is very difficult, a mission impossible.