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单词 encage
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Definition of encage in English:

encage

verb ɛnˈkeɪdʒɪnˈkeɪdʒ
[with object]literary
  • Confine in or as in a cage.

    two little canary birds were encaged in her window
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first sees that the second has a large crate he's carrying around with him, so he inquires whether some sort of animal is encaged within it.
    • I thought surely that now I am eighteen you would let me make my own decisions, but no you encaged me even more, if that is possible.
    • The woman, like her alienated and encaged heart, is restricted.
    • His round hairless face encages an assortment of features that prowl across the surface, searching for means of escape.
    • The medical center was encaged in a barbed-wire fence that I felt sure was also electric.
    • Instead of encaging animals for profit, commerce should be financially supporting breeding programmes of animals in the wild, many of which are becoming rapidly extinct.
 
 

Definition of encage in US English:

encage

verb
[with object]literary
  • Confine in or as in a cage.

    two little canary birds were encaged in her window
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Instead of encaging animals for profit, commerce should be financially supporting breeding programmes of animals in the wild, many of which are becoming rapidly extinct.
    • The first sees that the second has a large crate he's carrying around with him, so he inquires whether some sort of animal is encaged within it.
    • I thought surely that now I am eighteen you would let me make my own decisions, but no you encaged me even more, if that is possible.
    • The medical center was encaged in a barbed-wire fence that I felt sure was also electric.
    • His round hairless face encages an assortment of features that prowl across the surface, searching for means of escape.
    • The woman, like her alienated and encaged heart, is restricted.
 
 
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