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cooping up

cooping up is the present participle and gerund 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 cooping up

What is cooping up the present participle and gerund of?
Cooping up is the present participle and gerund of coop up.

Words near cooping up in the dictionary

  1. coopetitors
  2. coopful
  3. coopfuls
  4. cooping
  5. cooping in
  6. cooping up
  7. Cooplacurripa
  8. coopless
  9. coops
  10. coops in
  11. coops up

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