Pen up In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "pen up", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Julia Huong calendar 2022-07-09 06:07

Meaning of Pen up

Pen up informal verb phrase

To confine or imprison someone or an animal within a pen or a similarly tiny, limited place.

After buying a bird, Jack penned it up in a cage.

After Michael had been bitten by the dog once or twice, he penned it up in its kennel.

If you stole my money again, I would pen you up in the stockroom.

Other phrases about:

lock (someone) up and throw away the key

To imprison someone forever or indefinitely

clap (someone) in irons

To suddenly put one in jail or chains

take away

1. To remove it from the place where it is
2. To have something as the effect of an event
3. To take someone along to some place
4. To arrest or imprison someone.
5. To awe someone.
6. To win something hand downs.
7. To buy food at a restaurant for eating elsewhere.
8. (take away from) To detract from something.
9. To remove something from someone as a punishment 
10. To make a feeling, pain, etc. disappear.
11. To learn something from an experience or activity.
12. To make money from something.
13. To subtract a number
14. (take it away) Let the show begin! 

 

cage (someone or something) up (in something)

To keep a person or an animal in a particular space

send down for (something)

1. To request someone to leave a college or a university

2. To put someone in prison

3. To send someone or something somewhere for a particular purpose

4. To order room service at the hotel

Grammar and Usage of Pen up

Verb Forms

  • penned up
  • penning up
  • to pen up
  • pens up
The verb "pen" should be conjugated according to its tense.
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