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COCOONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cocooning mean?
• COCOONING (noun)
The noun COCOONING has 1 sense:
1. retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
Familiarity information: COCOONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cocooning" is a kind of...):
seclusion (the act of secluding yourself from others)
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