Encage

Quick meaning: Encage is a verb meaning To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

Meaning

To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

Example Sentences

I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.

Bruce's daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.

To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.

Word Forms

• encages
• encaging
• encaged

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