cage
noun
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
has caged
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present perfectof cage (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Someone who calls himself Ghoulardi has caged nearly every teen-age mind in Cleveland.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am just as young as I was then—only I am so much wiser," she thought, "and it is wisdom—it is knowing life that has caged me and made me a prisoner.
From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Then, certain of time for escape, I cried to my prisoners, "You are looking for Vidocq—well, it is he who has caged you; farewell."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 by Various
