encage

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6

Definition of encage

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
    “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.”
    “I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.”
    “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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Etymology

From en- + cage.

Hooks

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