coop up

• Verbe à particule signifiant enfermer ou confiner quelqu'un ou quelque chose dans un petit espace clos, souvent contre son gré.

A phrasal verb meaning to confine or restrict someone or something in a small, enclosed space.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Confine or restrictinformal

   To keep someone or something in a small, enclosed space, often against their will.

   Enfermer, confiner

   • The children were cooped up inside all day because of the rain.
   • They cooped the chickens up in a small pen.
   • I feel cooped up in this tiny apartment.

   Synonymescageconfineencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock upshut intrap

   Antonymesfreeliberaterelease