Locked up and Unable

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Unable and locked up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unable" instead an adjective "Locked up".

Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.

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Locked up and unable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Locked up" instead an adjective "Unable".

The first book opens with Sparta locked up in a mental hospital, unable to remember anything.

Source: Literature / Venus Prime
With Merida locked up and stuck in the tapestry room, she is helples and unable to aid her mother.

Source: Western Animation / Brave
About the kindest treatment an Undead can expect is being locked up in an isolated Asylum where they are left to rot until the end of the world comes, unable to die even if they wanted to.

Source: Fantastic Racism / Video Games

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