locked

adjective
/lɒkt/

Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.

Example

“A locked door barred the way.”

Other meanings

Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
“You can't delete a locked computer file.”
Bound to a carrier.

Related words

geolocked
locked behind bars
landlocked
multilocked
nonlocked
wood-locked
ziplocked
sealocked
locked up
long-locked
locked and loaded
region-locked

Example sentences

“I can't open it because it's locked.”
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Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “locked” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.