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Verb
fasten up (third-person singular simple present fastens up, present participle fastening up, simple past and past participle fastened up)
- (transitive) To fasten or attach
c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama , Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:If you want to turn around, then turn around, but I shan't fasten you up.