Synonyms for coop up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : koop, koo p

Phonetic Transcription : kup, kʊp

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Définition 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

Example sentences :

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

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