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incage

incage is the alternative form of encage.

Meaning of encage

Verb

encage (third-person singular simple present encages, present participle encaging, simple past and past participle encaged)

  1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
    • 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.1858, B. B. Wiffen, Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries", page 12

Forms of incage

third-person singular presentincages
present participleincaging
past participleincaged
pastincaged

Origin of incage

From in- + cage.

Words formed from incage

Words that rhyme with incage

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Questions about incage

What is incage the alternative form of?
Incage is the alternative form of encage.

Words near incage in the dictionary

  1. Inca Empire
  2. Inca lily
  3. incadronate
  4. incadronates
  5. incadronic acid
  6. incage
  7. incaged
  8. incagement
  9. incages
  10. incaging
  11. Incaic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incage (page history and authors); encage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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