coop up

English

Verb

coop up (third-person singular simple present coops up, present participle cooping up, simple past and past participle cooped up)

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.

Translations

to confine

French: mettre en cage (fr), enfermer (fr), claustrer (fr)

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