in swaddling clothes

adjective

Roget 751: restrained, constrained; imprisoned etc. v.; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time etc. (prisoner) 754; cohibitive^†; coactive etc. (compulsory) 744^†.    stiff, restringent^†, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound^†.    ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.    ... show more

Roget 129: infantine^†, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.    in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.    ... show more

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