Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cage
Participle: caged
Gerund: caging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cage |
| you | cage |
| he;she;it | cages |
| we | cage |
| you | cage |
| they | cage |
Perfect
| I | have caged |
| you | have caged |
| he;she;it | has caged |
| we | have caged |
| you | have caged |
| they | have caged |
Past
| I | caged |
| you | caged |
| he;she;it | caged |
| we | caged |
| you | caged |
| they | caged |
Pluperfect
| I | had caged |
| you | had caged |
| he;she;it | had caged |
| we | had caged |
| you | had caged |
| they | had caged |
Future
| I | will cage |
| you | will cage |
| he;she;it | will cage |
| we | will cage |
| you | will cage |
| they | will cage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have caged |
| you | will have caged |
| he;she;it | will have caged |
| we | will have caged |
| you | will have caged |
| they | will have caged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cage |
| you | cage |
| he;she;it | cage |
| we | cage |
| you | cage |
| they | cage |
Perfect
| I | have caged |
| you | have caged |
| he;she;it | have caged |
| we | have caged |
| you | have caged |
| they | have caged |
Imperfect
| I | caged |
| you | caged |
| he;she;it | caged |
| we | caged |
| you | caged |
| they | caged |
Pluperfect
| I | had caged |
| you | had caged |
| he;she;it | had caged |
| we | had caged |
| you | had caged |
| they | had caged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cage |
| you | would cage |
| he;she;it | would cage |
| we | would cage |
| you | would cage |
| they | would cage |
Perfect
| I | would have caged |
| you | would have caged |
| he;she;it | would have caged |
| we | would have caged |
| you | would have caged |
| they | would have caged |
Imperative
| you | cage |
| we | Let's cage |
| you | cage |
Verbs conjugated like 'cage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cage'
age,
cade,
cadge,
cake,
cane,
cape,
care,
case,
cave,
gage,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.
Sample Sentences
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And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity. [1923, Animal World: An Advocate of Humanity, page 33:]
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Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary advance in American zoo design. [2000, Bernard Livingston, Zoo: Animals, People, Places, →ISBN, page 95:]
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The industrial practice of caging commercial laying hens has given caged housing a bad narne. [2010, Gail Damerow, Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition, →ISBN:]
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Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. [2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:]
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By caging chickens, farmers broke the cycle and had to busy themselves with feeding, cleaning and pest control activities. [2018, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, Stephen Hill, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics, →ISBN:]
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The serial killer was caged for life.
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To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.