Definition of "encage" []

• To confine in or as if in a cage. (verb-transitive)

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• "And that's why most people at the top end of the hierarchy don't encage in this kind of behavior, much less repeatedly."
• "I now had children of my own that I had begun to encage."
• "They don't realize the consequences, and can we get stronger law passed, and, or, even encage those overpasses, so that this cannot happen anymore."