straitjacket

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  1. noun A long-sleeved jacketlike garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent patient or prisoner.
  2. noun Something that restricts, hinders, or confines: the straitjacket of bureaucratic paperwork.
  3. transitive verb To restrain, restrict, or hinder by or as if by confining in a straitjacket.

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  • Even in the straitjacket, they'd been told, it was feared he would injure himself by fighting with such frenzy against his restraints Now Cherner was silent, passive, inert Doug tried again. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • The air in the room pressed against me like a straitjacket, forming a question. —  Up In A Heaval
  • He said the girl agreed to put him in the straitjacket, then spanked him at his request, and while doing so she took his wallet out of his back pocket because it was in the way. —  The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
  • And while Cyrus will want to break out of her alter ego's straitjacket, she can't forsake fans who worship pop idol Montana, says Silvio Pietroluongo, director of charts at Billboard. —  The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines
  • I thought it would have been funnier if Ronnie wound up in a straitjacket or got framed as the flasher, and then exonerated in a penis lineup. —  Movie City News
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