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Antonyms for coop up
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : koop, koo p |
Phonetic Transcription : kup, kʊp |
Definition of coop up
Origin :- "small cage for poultry," mid-14c., from Old English cype, cypa "basket, cask," akin to Middle Dutch kupe, Swedish kupa, and all probably from Latin cupa "tub, cask," from PIE *keup- "hollow mound" (see cup (n.)).
- As in incarcerate : verb put in jail, confinement
- As in bottle up : verb hold in check
- As in cage : verb hold in enclosure
- As in corral : verb enclose
- As in cramp : verb hinder, restrain
- As in impound : verb confine
- By occupying all the posts of Egypt, we can coop up the French and force them to capitulate.
- Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
- You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.
- Extract from : « Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford » by George Randolph Chester
- That ten thousand peasants can coop up an equal number of the Kings trained troops is too monstrous for any sane mind to believe.
- Extract from : « The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill » by John T. McIntyre
- Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men, and you undo them.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 » by Various
Synonyms for coop up
- bastille
- book
- bottle up
- box up
- bring to naught
- cage
- check
- circumscribe
- clamp
- clasp
- clog
- close in
- collar
- commit
- confine
- constrain
- contain
- coop up
- cork
- corner
- cover up
- cramp
- curb
- detain
- enclose
- encumber
- entrap
- envelop
- fasten
- fence in
- grip
- hamper
- hamstring
- handicap
- hem
- hold
- hold back
- hold down
- hold in
- immure
- impede
- impound
- imprison
- incarcerate
- inhibit
- intern
- jail
- keep
- keep back
- keep feeling inside oneself
- keep secret
- limit
- lock up
- mew
- object
- obstruct
- pen
- put away
- put on ice
- put under lock and key
- railroad
- repress
- restrain
- restrict
- seize
- send up the river
- settle
- shackle
- shut in
- shut up
- slough
- stymie
- suppress
- take
- take away
- throw book at
- thwart
- trap
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