1. to confine or imprison in or as if in a cage

Examples

• The zookeeper decided to encage the injured bird until it recovered.
• The dictator sought to encage his political opponents.
• They had to encage the wild animal for everyone’s safety.
• The protesters felt encaged by the police barriers.
• The small apartment seemed to encage her creative spirit.
• Workers encaged the construction site with temporary fencing.