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locked into

locked into is the simple past and past participle of lock into.

Meaning of lock into

Verb

lock into (third-person singular simple present locks into, present participle locking into, simple past and past participle locked into)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To firmly commit to (something or someone).
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To involve (a person or thing) in (a plan or system) in such a way that escaping from it is difficult.

Questions about locked into

What is locked into the simple past and past participle of?
Locked into is the simple past and past participle of lock into.

Words near locked into in the dictionary

  1. locked faults
  2. locked groove
  3. locked grooves
  4. locked horns
  5. locked in
  6. locked into
  7. locked lips
  8. locked nucleic acid
  9. locked nucleic acids
  10. locked off
  11. locked on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: locked into (page history and authors); lock into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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