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cooped up

cooped up is the simple past and past participle of coop up.

Meaning of coop up

Verb

coop up (third-person singular simple present coops up, present participle cooping up, simple past and past participle cooped up)

  1. To confine in a restricted place or situation
    • We ran for the better part of a mile without hearing anything more from the direction of the harbor, and then I reduced the speed to a walk, for the exercise was telling on us who had been cooped up for so long in the confined interior of the U-33. Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...

Questions about cooped up

What is cooped up the simple past and past participle of?
Cooped up is the simple past and past participle of coop up.

Words near cooped up in the dictionary

  1. coop in
  2. coop up
  3. Coop.
  4. cooped
  5. cooped in
  6. cooped up
  7. cooper
  8. Cooper City
  9. Cooper clover
  10. Cooper County
  11. Cooper Creek

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