mew up

English

Verb

mew up (third-person singular simple present mews up, present participle mewing up, simple past and past participle mewed up)

  1. (archaic) to imprison
    • 1835, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Home: A Story of New England Life:
      "We do not keep him mewed up, Betsey," replied Mrs. Barclay, “nor does he continue mewed up, for a single flash of temper […] "
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