CAGE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cage in mean? 

• CAGE IN (verb)
  The verb CAGE IN has 1 sense:

1. confine in a cage

  Familiarity information: CAGE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAGE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confine in a cage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

cage; cage in

Context example:

The animal was caged

Hypernyms (to "cage in" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They cage in the animals

 Context examples 

As "the Fighting Wolf" he was known far and wide, and the cage in which he was kept on the steam-boat's deck was usually surrounded by curious men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Mills, who was a terrible fellow to fall asleep after dinner, had not yet gone out, and there was no bird-cage in the middle window.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To me he was unweariedly kind, and always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes hanging up burnished and his parrot in a cage in one corner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But another Saturday came, and on that Saturday evening she was to be at Miss Mills's; and when Mr. Mills had gone to his whist-club (telegraphed to me in the street, by a bird-cage in the drawing-room middle window), I was to go there to tea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)