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caging

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the direct mail industry, a caging list is a list/database of addresses, updated after a mailing program is completed, with notations on responses, with corrections for addresses for which mail has been returned as undeliverable or forwarded. In third-party ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caged (k[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Caging .] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. ``Caged and starved to death.'' --Cowper.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cage English)

Usage examples of caging.

Chance moved with startling speed, cutting her off by caging her against the side of the BMW.

Fire leaped the road behind Cain, in front of him, all around him, caging him in flames.

His hands moved lovingly from her shoulders to her thighs, pressing against her, urging her even closer to his heat, caging her gently between his legs.

His hands shot forward and gripped the edge of the table, caging her, cutting off any possibility that she could move aside.

Even the HRT shooters, who were trained to bring them in alive in order to toss them in front of a Federal District Court judge for proper sentencing and caging at Marion, Illinois, hadn't done well in that area.

Nicolas was pressed tight against her, dwarfing her, caging her between his hard frame and the tree.

He placed one palm against the wall, effectively caging her in, his body language blatant, possessive, deliberately easy to read.

But the heaviness of the bedding oppressed him, caging him, making him feel small and trapped and isolated from the world.

He leaned close, reached out, and planted his wide palms on the door behind her, effectively caging her.

He settled her on the bed and leaned over her, caging her between his arms.

It billowed and churned within the caging words, blood-color, sun-color, alive with frustration.

It fluttered within his caging fingers, leaving here and there a wing scale like pale golddust, and finally sat on one of his fingers and looked up at him with confused dark eyes.

He had been locked up, away from the sun and the mountains, the clear fresh air, and she knew it had been like caging a wild animal.