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Pen up

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Verb
  1. 1
    To enclose (animals) in a pen. transitive
  2. 2
    confine in a fold, like sheep wordnet
  3. 3
    To enclose as if in a pen. transitive

    "Pent up in Utica he vainly forms A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs, And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs A feeble Army, and an empty Senate, Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain."

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