Crossword clues for cooped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
--Dryden.
The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the
understanding up within narrow bounds.
--Locke.
2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] ``Shaken
tubs . . . be new cooped.''
--Holland.
Syn: To crowd; confine; imprison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: coop)
Usage examples of "cooped".
Besides, I've no intention of staying cooped up in this tin coffin with old Bullethead while you get to breathe fresh air.
He wasn’t used to being cooped up in one place for weeks and months at a time.
On thirty seconds’ acquaintance, she reminded him of Sal, the brassy waitress with whom, among many others, the Lizards had cooped him up in a church in Fiat, Indiana.
He’d met Roosevelt before, and knew the President wasn’t as vibrant in person as he appeared in the newsreels: being cooped up in a wheelchair would do that to you.
Jamie thought that if they had to spend just a few more hours cooped up in this cramped claustrophobic compartment, somebody would commit murder.
The men and women cooped up in the crowded base had set up betting pools.
I'm not going to be cooped up inside a spacecraft for nearly two years with someone I can't stand.
SOL 6: MORNING Strangely, Jamie felt more relaxed and free cooped up in the cramped rover with Vosnesensky than he had at their base camp's dome.
They were friendly enough now, but what kind of problems might arise with both of them cooped up for ten days in the rover?
It'd make a complete mess of our relationships here, cooped up in this aluminum can.
She knew she would have gone crazy, cooped up in there the day around with a horde of screaming children.
The first explorers sent to Mars spent days on end cooped up in their spacecraft's cramped “storm cellar,” until the high-energy particles of the storm's plasma cloud finally passed them by.
After more than five days of being cooped up in the ship, she was going outside.
She must feel as cooped up as a hawk during training, stuck in that bedchamber all day.