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Definition: ENCAGE |
ENCAGETransitive verb1. To confine in a cage; to coop up. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Restraint | Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ENCAGE |
| English words defined with "ENCAGE": Encaged. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ENCAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fut në kafaz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | затварям в клетка (cage, coop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zavřít do klece. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kalitkába zár (to cage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengurungkan (call off, postpone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chiudere in gabbia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encageay engaiolar (cage, coop), aniversário de fundação. (various references) închide în cuşcã, închide în colivie (mew). (various references) сажать в клетку (cage, mew). (various references) zatvoriti u kavez. (various references) poner en jaula (enfetter). (various references) sätta i bur. (various references) ขังกรง. (various references) kafeslemek (bamboozle, cage, coop, coop in, coop up, deceive, rope in, spoof), kafese koymak (cage, deceive, mew, mew up). (various references) садовити в клітку (mew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENCAGE": encaged, encages. (additional references) | |
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"ENCAGE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecae, enace, enage, Encafe, enclage, Enmag, entage, enwage, nccae, necare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n" | |
-1 letter: agene. | |
-2 letters: acne, agee, cage, cane, gaen, gane, gene. | |
-3 letters: ace, age, ane, can, cee, eng, gae, gan, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, an, en, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n" | |
+1 letter: encaged, encages. | |
+2 letters: agencies, agenetic, carageen, cozenage, elegance, elegancy, exchange, gynaecea, rechange, scavenge, tangence. | |
+3 letters: cageyness, carageens, careening, careering, carrageen, challenge, clientage, congealed, cozenages, deceasing, elegances, encourage, evangelic, exchanged, exchanger, exchanges, genetical, geomancer, greenback, grievance, gynaeceum, rechanged, rechanges, recoinage, rectangle, scavenged, scavenger, scavenges, sergeancy, tangences, vengeance. | |
+4 letters: adrenergic, allegiance, allergenic, allogeneic, anecdotage, anteceding, caginesses, camerlengo, carrageens, carragheen, centigrade, challenged, challenger, challenges, changeable, changeless, changeover, cheapening, cinemagoer, clientages, coagencies, congregate, decreasing, defecating, degeneracy, diagenetic, elegancies, encouraged, encourager, encourages, escheating, evanescing, exchangers, execrating, gaucheness, gearchange, geniculate, geomancers, geomancies, governance, grandniece, grecianize, greenbacks, grievances, inelegance, mediagenic, paedogenic, pangenetic, percentage, reacceding, recleaning, recoinages, recreating, rectangles, reenacting, regeneracy, regnancies, repugnance, reteaching, scavengers, tangencies, vengeances. | |
+5 letters: acknowledge, allegiances, anecdotages, atherogenic, becarpeting, cageynesses, calendering, camerlengos, carrageenan, carrageenin, carragheens, celebrating, cerebrating, challengers, changeovers, chaperonage, chivareeing, cinemagoers, cogenerator, collagenase, congealment, congregated, congregates, deprecating, desecrating, encouragers, enucleating, eugenically, evangelical, freelancing, gametogenic, geanticline, gearchanges, generically, genetically, geniculated, geomagnetic, glabrescent, glycerinate, governances, gracileness, grandnieces, grecianized, grecianizes, greenbacker, inelegances, interagency, interchange, kneecapping, medevacking, metagenetic, noncoverage, pacesetting, paragenetic, peacemaking, percentages, plangencies, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing, precreasing, preenacting, pregnancies, reaccenting, reaccepting, reascending, recarpeting, rechallenge, reeducating, rejacketing, repugnances, researching, scaremonger, sergeancies, subagencies, superagency, telecasting, teratogenic, undercharge. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 43 41 47 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01000011 01000001 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N C A G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0043 0041 0047 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)394837354139 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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