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Imprison vs Encage - What's the difference?

imprison | encage |

As verbs the difference between imprison and encage

is that imprison is to put in or as if in prison; confine while encage is to lock inside a cage; to imprison.

imprison

English

Alternative forms

* emprison

Verb

(en verb)
  • To put in or as if in prison; confine.

    • Synonyms

    * bang up * gaol, jail * lock up * put away * (British, colloquial) sent to the Tower “imprisoned” * See also

    Derived terms

    * imprisoner * imprisonment

    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.}}