What is "relock"

Usage examples of "relock".

Coffyn relocked the door once they were out again, and sent his bottler for a pint of wine.

The door at the top of the mausoleum steps we had reclosed but not relocked.

I relocked the chapel, deposited the key in the lockbox, and revved my van up the service road, to the edge of the moat, by the castle Dumpster.

He lifted up a large ledger, relocked the door, and carried the ledger over to the table.

Komananov had carefully relocked after recovering it from Number Seven the first time.

He unlocked an old hair trunk, tumbled a chaos of shabby clothes aside, and drew a short stout bag into view for a moment, then buried it again and relocked the trunk.

Upon this with another pencil he inscribed a reply, then closed and relocked the casket.

She stood there, balloons bobbing, as I closed the door behind us and relocked it.

She pulled her Glock from its holster, unlocked her top drawer, and set the gun inside before relocking it.

She knew the card had to go in at exactly the right angle, otherwise it relocked the door and she had to start over.

After returning the cachette to its original state, he replaced and relocked all the drawers and withdrew, sealing the office door behind him.

It was easy to forget such mundane things as relocking doors when you had seen a couple of people hung up on posts with coaxial cables coming out of their heads.

I pulled the key out of Dad without relocking it and slid it into Mom, turning it.

He searched through his thousands of keys for the right one, unlocked the chest, counted the coins, checked the records to see if the amount was suspiciously low, conferred with spies to confirm that no cheating had taken place, relocked the chest, and pattered down the street to the next place of business.

So the killer empties one out, puts in the body, and then he relocks it.