1. confined or trapped in or as if in a cage

1. past tense and past participle of encage: to confine in or as if in a cage

Examples

• The bird looked sad and restless when encaged.
• She felt encaged by the strict rules of her boarding school.
• The zoo encaged the wild animals for public viewing.
• His creativity seemed encaged by the corporate environment.
• The protesters were encaged behind metal barriers.
• The tiger paced restlessly in its encaged state.