to be cooped up
1cooped up — adj [not before noun] having to stay for a period of time in a place that is too small ▪ It isn t good for you to be cooped up in the house all day …
2Cooped — Coop Coop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cooping}.] To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; usually followed by up, sometimes by in. [1913 Webster] The Trojans cooped within their walls… …
3cooped up — [[t]ku͟ːpt ʌ̱p[/t]] ADJ: v link ADJ If you say that someone is cooped up, you mean that they live or are kept in a place which is too small, or which does not allow them much freedom. He is cooped up in a cramped cell with 10 other inmates... It… …
4cooped — kuËp n. cage, pen, henhouse; cooperative, collectively owned and operated business v. confine; place in a pen or coop; cage …
5cooped up — [ˌkuːpt ˈʌp] adj in a place that you cannot leave or cannot move around in …
6cooped — …
7be cooped up — confine in a small space. → coop …
8coop up — verb confine in or as if in a coop she coops herself up in the library all day • Syn: ↑coop in • Hypernyms: ↑confine • Verb Frames: Somebody s somebody Somebody s somebody PP …
9coop up — phrasal verb [transitive, usually passive] Word forms coop up : present tense I/you/we/they coop up he/she/it coops up present participle cooping up past tense cooped up past participle cooped up if a person or animal is cooped up in a place,… …
10Coop — Coop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cooping}.] To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; usually followed by up, sometimes by in. [1913 Webster] The Trojans cooped within their walls so… …
