pound up

1. 1.

   shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

   “The prisoners are safely pounded”

   Synonymspound

   Broaderrestrain

Questions about pound up

What does pound up mean?

pound up means "shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits".

What is another word for pound up?

Close synonyms include pound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pound up a common word?

pound up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.