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Encases vs Encages - What's the difference?

encases | encages |

As verbs the difference between encases and encages

is that encases is third-person singular of encase while encages is third-person singular of encage.

encases

English

Verb

(head)
  • (encase)

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    encase

    English

    Alternative forms

    * incase

    Verb

    (encas)
  • To enclose, as in a case.
  • *1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
    • They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.

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    encages

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (encage)

    • encage

    English

    Verb

    (encag)
  • To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858, author=B. B. Wiffen, title=Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries" citation
    • , passage=Bruce's daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged , the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 12, author=Fiona Johannessen, title=Other Voices: Inspired by shelter of compassion, work=TheUnion.com citation
    • , passage=I feared the sight of encaged animals would be unbearably sad.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 18, author=Natalie Angier, title=Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.}}