Cage
Cage noun - An enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals.
Usage example: the dogs and cats at the animal shelter looked so sad in their cages
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Synonyms for Cage
Pound is a synonym for cage in enclosure topic. In some cases you can use "Pound" instead the word "Cage" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like pen, shut up, enclosure with bars.
How words are described
| full | full cage | full pound |
| regular | regular cage | regular pound |
| single | single cage | single pound |
| massive | massive cage | massive pound |
| Other adjectives: big, little, falling, final, last. | ||
Common collocations
| enemy | cage enemy | pound enemy |
Both words in one sentence
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Later, when Garfield and Odie are in the pound, all the cage bars are wide enough for even Garfield to walk out, but nobody seems to notice.
- Hurley manages to pound Kournikova into the cage, followed by a series of limbs and carnage flying from the top.
Source: Big No / Western Animation - Freefall has Florence (the sentient wolf) in the dog pound, asking this question to the pooch in the next cage.
Source: What Are You in For?
Cite this Source
Pound and Cage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cage/pound
Cage & Pound. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cage/pound>.
Pound or Cage. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cage/pound.
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