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cage

noun as in enclosure with bars

verb as in hold in enclosure

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But you wonder how even the sane keep from losing their minds when you step into a cell—or rather a cage—at Graterford.

It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

In fact, in 2000 a 9.0-rated Action Comics No.1 owned by Nicolas Cage was stolen from his house.

In the U.S, Allan Kaprow, an artist pupil of John Cage, came up with the word “Happening” in 1957.

When I first heard about the sport, I assumed that it was a “no holds barred” cage match where pretty much anything goes.

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

The 'cage' was simply an arrangement for 'straiter custody,' though but rarely judged necessary in the case of ladies.

Across the middle of the cage a stout barricade has been erected, and behind the barricade sits the Master, pale but defiant.

A long, portable cage had been put together on the stage during the intermission, and within it the ten pacing beasts.

The cage went down by the run into the boat, and with a crash fell asunder.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cage, such as: crate, enclosure, jail, pen, coop, and corral.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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