💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Encage"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| incageverb | Alternative form of encage. [To lock inside a cage; to imprison.] |
| cagenoun | An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. |
| incarcerateverb | (chiefly US, transitive) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law. |
| lock inverb | (transitive, colloquial) To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative. |
| close inverb | (intransitive) To come or approach nearer to someone being pursued. |
| cribnoun | (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. |
| enlockverb | (transitive, archaic) To enclose. |
| encasenoun | To enclose, as in a case. |
| inlockverb | (transitive) To lock in. |
| embarnoun | (archaic, transitive) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison. |
| lock upverb | (transitive) To imprison or incarcerate (someone). |
| enjailverb | (transitive) To put in jail. |
| imprisonverb | (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will. |
| enmureverb | Obsolete form of immure. [(transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.] |
| includeverb | To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member. |
| shutverb | (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses. |
| immureverb | (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. |
| commitverb | (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. |
| inter | To bury in a grave. |
| enframeverb | (transitive) To enclose in, or as if in, a frame. |
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