encage

present singular third person encages · participle present encaging · participle past encaged · past encaged

1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

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

   2009 August 12, Fiona Johannessen, “Other Voices: Inspired by shelter of compassion”, in TheUnion.com, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016

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   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.

   1858, B. B. Wiffen, Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries", page 12

   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.

   2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times