Help and Locking up

Opposite meaning terms

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Locking up is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

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Help is an antonym for locking up in topics: tie, confine, grasp, hold back, stop.

It didn't help in this case though, since the problem was the TARDIS, which they intended to solve by locking up the Doctor, when someone else was in control.

Source: Superman Stays out of Gotham
Their help includes things like putting an aversion spell so that the upper class and lower class guests can't mingle, and locking up all the children who arrive in a nursery with a caretaker who treats them all as if they were pre-schoolers.

Source: Fan Fic / Reality Checks Nyxverse
Oppressive States of America: President Jim Jones establishes an authoritarian rule over America, locking up his opponents in labor camps, ruthlessly crushing militants of all stripes, and creating a paramilitary force called the "National Volunteer Army" to help enforce his rule.

Source: Literature / For All Time

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