mew up

verb

mew up

verb

1

Archaic to imprison

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

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