Synonyms for cage
keɪdʒcage

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1. cage

   Synonyms:
   imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib

   Antonyms:
   liberate, free, dismiss, unbar

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1. cage, coopnoun

   an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

   Synonyms:
   henhouse, batting cage, coop, hencoop, chicken coop

2. cagenoun

   something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

   Synonyms:
   batting cage, coop

3. Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.noun

   United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

   Synonyms:
   batting cage, coop

4. cagenoun

   the net that is the goal in ice hockey

   Synonyms:
   batting cage, coop

5. batting cage, cageverb

   a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

   Synonyms:
   batting cage, coop

6. cage, cage inverb

   confine in a cage

   "The animal was caged"

   Synonyms:
   cage in

Matched Categories

1. • Composer
   • Constraint
   • Net

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1. cagenoun

   Synonyms:
   mew

2. cageverb

   Synonyms:
   confine, coop up, encage, mew

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1. List of paraphrases for "cage":

   cages, kennel, birdcage, basket, bur, crate, shoe

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1. Sam Baker:

   She and I used to have a good rapport, but my mother wouldn’t let me take her in the house, so I had to build a cage for her outside.

2. Attorney Robert Driscoll:

   These inmates are locked up and enclosed in a steel door cage the size of a parking space, deprived of any meaningful human contact or sensory stimulation for 22 hours a day, every day, with no release date in sight.

3. Susan Lucci:

   I didn’t think much of it because I had never had anything, in fact, it had disappeared by the time I was at the table. [But] there was a mild pressure on my chest that also radiated around my rib cage to my back. Like most women, I thought, ‘Oh, it’ll go away.’ And it did.

4. The Iraqis:

   We did the standup inside a cage.

5. Mauricio Hoyos Padilla:

   The dive master was pushing the shark away -- it has a big laceration on the right side, it was really close to the cage, and they have pointy ends. It is so big it couldn't turn properly. So he was trying to push her away, because he didn't want her to get hurt.