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encage

Incage \In*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] ``Incaged birds.''
--Shak.

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encage

vb. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

Usage examples of "encage".

And then, I thought how silly that was, a naive little thing like me expecting to encage so free a man.

Even half-deflated, it could slop along at a fair clip, but he reached the woods with yards to spare and stood once more encaged by the gigantic bars of the pines.

It was at this moment that sunlight coming through the big window painted Bret and the machine that encaged him gold, so that he looked like the statue of a remote, wrinkled and pagan god.

His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man.

Two couples were swaying to a ballad that welled from a jukebox encaged in chicken wire and two-by-fours.

Even half-deflated, it could slop along at a fair clip, but he reached the woods with yards to spare and stood once more encaged by the gigantic bars of the pines.

The visitor paths through Monkey Mountain were enclosed by chicken wire, giving the effect that it was the humans who were encaged while the wild beasts roamed free.

Energies spiraled from six of its tines, encaging Ghost and myself, swirling us upward to the place of my desire in the Maze of Art.