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Definitions for Caged

[1] a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
[2] anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
[3] something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
[4] the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
[5] Mining . an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
[6] any skeleton framework.
[7] Baseball . a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
[8] a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
[9] Basketball Older Use . the basket.
[10] a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
[11] Ordnance . a steel framework for supporting guns.
[12] Machinery . retainer1(def 3) .
[13] to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
[14] Sports . to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
[15] John, 1912–1992, U.S. composer.
[16] an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc (as modifier ) cagebird
[17] a thing or place that confines or imprisons
[18] something resembling a cage in function or structure the rib cage
[19] the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
[20] engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
[21] informal the basket used in basketball
[22] informal the goal in ice hockey
[23] US a steel framework on which guns are supported
[24] rattle someone's cage informal to upset or anger someone
[25] (tr) to confine in or as in a cage
[26] John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)

Words related to Caged

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Origin of Caged

1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin cavea birdcage, equivalent to cav(us ) hollow + -ea, feminine of -eus adj. suffix

Other words from Caged

cage·less , adjective
cage·like , adjective
re·cage , verb (used with object), re·caged, re·cag·ing.

Word origin for Caged

C13: from Old French, from Latin cavea enclosure, from cavus hollow

Synonyms for Caged

coop up, confine, enclose, envelop, hem, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, jail, mew, pen, restrain, close in, fence in, lock up, shut in, shut up