caged

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English

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Adjective

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caged (not comparable)

  1. Confined in a cage.
  2. (of eggs) Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
    • 2017, Kathy Smith, John Loughran, Quality Learning: Teachers Changing Their Practice, page 45:
      Two thirds of the class decided that free-range eggs had more taste and flavour than caged eggs and one third liked the taste of caged eggs more than free range.
  3. Resembling a cage.
    • 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern Railways, page 300:
      It is lighter to handle and more manoeuvrable, and its three caged sides with web straps on the fourth prevent movement of the contents.
  4. (slang, derogatory) Jailed, imprisoned, incarcerated.

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Verb

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caged

  1. simple past and past participle of cage

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