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单词 caged
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cagedadj.

/keɪdʒd/
Etymology: < cage v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Confined in, or as in, a cage. Also with in.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adjective] > confined
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reclusedc1443
incarcerate1528
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wall-fastc1593
immured1596
up-pent1600
confined1605
cageda1616
impent1633
straitened1757
hemmed in1894
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 35 Twentie caged Nightingales do sing. View more context for this quotation
1650 M. Llewellyn Elegie in J. Gregory Posthuma Pref. Verses sig. A3 The cag'd Votarie did wider dwell, Then Thou.
1720 J. Gay Dione ii. ii, in Poems II. 453 The cag'd linnet.
1899 K. Grahame Dream Days 15 ‘What's that got to do with it?’ retorted his sister, resuming her caged-lion promenade.
1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year A bookworm..Timid, half-blind, caged-in, afraid.
2. Closed like a cage.Apparently an isolated use.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Lv She would the caged cloister flie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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