Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Depressed at the center like a cup; dished; cup-shaped.
- Lodged in a cup or depression of the ground, as a golf-ball.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in the
shape of a cup - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cup .
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Examples
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Sky pours down chases shadow-fingers, pools copper in cupped-snow pawprints bigger than hands.
Ekwiiyemak/Behind the Clouds (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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According to the letter, they ate whatever crawled into or near their cages and drank only rainwater they caught in cupped hands.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Sky pours down chases shadow-fingers, pools copper in cupped-snow pawprints bigger than hands.
Ekwiiyemak/Behind the Clouds (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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Elbows on the table, chin cupped in my hands, I look from The Boy to Tadpole and back again, marvelling at how simple and how right everything feels.
three 2008
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Elbows on the table, chin cupped in my hands, I look from The Boy to Tadpole and back again, marvelling at how simple and how right everything feels.
toys 2008
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Ignite the tinder mass by holding a match flame, cupped from the wind, underneath it.
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Then raise the ball, holding it in cupped hands, and blow that kernel of heat into flame.
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Marvin cupped Anna's elbow lightly, led her away from the door.
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He had pressed wet hand to dry now, palm to palm, the coin cupped tightly between them.
Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton 1958
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Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below.
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