verb
- 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.