encage
/ɪnˈkeɪdʒ/
verb
- To confine or trap someone or something in a cage or enclosed space.
- The farmer decided to encage the chickens to protect them from predators.
- The zookeepers had to encage the injured bird for its safety.
- She felt her job would encage her creativity and limit her freedom.
- To restrict or limit someone's freedom or movement in a figurative sense.
- The strict rules of the school encage the students' natural curiosity.
- His fear of failure seemed to encage his ambitions.
- She refused to let her past mistakes encage her future.
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