cooping
Meaning of cooping
verb, gerund or present participle
- confine in a small space.
being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety
- put or keep (poultry) in a cage or pen.
our free-range chickens roam the barnyard instead of staying cooped up in a henhouse
Middle English cowpe ; related to Dutch kuip ‘vat’ and German Kufe ‘cask’, based on Latin cupa . Compare with cooper.
Information about cooping
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of cooping
coop-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- cooping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cooping synonyms
Meaning keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time):
Meaning have or retain possession of:
Meaning keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention:
Meaning catch (an animal) in a trap:
Meaning put or keep in prison or a place like a prison:
Meaning imprison or confine:
Meaning enclose or confine (someone) against their will:
Meaning confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons:
Meaning seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law:
Meaning confine in a cage:
Meaning surround or close off on all sides:
Words that rhyme with cooping
Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping
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