"encage" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1858, B. B. Wiffen, Choice Notes from \"Notes and Queries\", page 12:",
          "text": "Bruce's daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.",
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          "ref": "2009 August 12, Fiona Johannessen, “Other Voices: Inspired by shelter of compassion”, in TheUnion.com, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:",
          "text": "I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.",
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        "To lock inside a cage; to imprison."
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    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪdʒ"
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  "word": "encage"
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