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corked up
adjective as in restrained
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And as soon as they got you safely corked up, what's to prevent them from handing you over to Progress?
By keeping fleas in a glass tube corked up at both ends, but so as to admit fresh air, their several actions may be observed.
I am corked up like the barrel of Guillots gun, and yet I did everything for the best.
A bottle of champagne, corked up and untasted, stood upon the table before me.
We were again momentarily corked up in an air-tight compartment.
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On this page you'll find 207 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cork up, such as: choke, constrain, muzzle, suppress, balk, and cork.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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