• Encage

    Origin

    - + cage

    Full definition of encage

    Verb

    1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
      • 1858, B. B. Wiffen, Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries", 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.
      • 2009, August 12, Fiona Johannessen, Other Voices: Inspired by shelter of compassion, I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.
      • 2009, August 18, Natalie Angier, Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop, 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.
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