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encage
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en·cage

transitive verb \in-ˈkāj, en-\

Definition of ENCAGE

: cage 1

Examples of ENCAGE

  1. <a stay-at-home mom who somehow felt encaged in her home>

First Known Use of ENCAGE

1592

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Synonyms
box (in), cage, closet, coop (up), corral, enclose, encase, envelop, fence (in), hedge, hem (in), house, immure, include, mew (up), pen, wall (in)

Rhymes with ENCAGE

backstage, birdcage, broad-gauge, coon's age, dark age, downstage, engage, enrage, forestage, front-page, greengage, ice age, Iron Age, new age, offstage, onstage, outrage, presage, rampage, rib cage, road rage, roll cage, soundstage, space-age, substage, teenage, thrust stage, uncage, upstage

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