Coop In (Verb)
Meaning
Confine in or as if in a coop; "she coops herself up in the library all day".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The anxious bird cooped herself up in the far corner of the cage.
- The agoraphobic woman coops herself in her room and refuses to go outside.
- To recover from her illness, she cooped herself up indoors for a week.
- The claustrophobic man hated being cooped up in the tiny elevator.
- He coops his pet rabbit in the hutch when he goes to work in the morning.