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Coop up

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  1. 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 about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing."

  2. 2
    confine in or as if in a coop wordnet

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