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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
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     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.

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