Cage and Prison

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Cage noun - An enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals.

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Prison is a synonym for cage in building topic. In some cases you can use "Prison" instead the word "Cage" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: cagey, caged, caging

Prison noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: the ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison

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Cage is a synonym for prison in enclosure topic. You can use "Cage" instead the word "Prison" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: prisoner, prisoned, prisoning

full	full cage	full prison
special	special cage	special prison
regular	regular cage	regular prison
original	original cage	original prison
Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, massive, large, big, huge, inescapable, giant, magical.

This trope comes into action when a character is deliberately placed within a transparent cage to hold them akin to a prison cell.

Source: Glassy Prison
The old saying that "a gilded cage is still a cage" acknowledges the idea of a prison being a prison, no matter how comfortable, and there is some overlap of the Gilded Cage with this trope.

Source: Implicit Prison
It is because of you that I spent six long months locked away in a prison cell...six months caged like an animal in a cage!

Source: Redundancy / Western Animation

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