restraint

Roget category 751

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#751. Restraint

noun

restraint — hindrance etc. 706 — coercion etc. (compulsion) 744 — cohibition^†, constraint, repression, suppression — discipline, control.
confinement — durance, duress — imprisonment — incarceration, coarctation^†, entombment, mancipation^†, durance vile, limbo, captivity — blockade.
arrest, arrestation^† — custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency^†.
curb etc. (means of restraint) 752 — lettres de cachet [Fr.].
limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly — prohibition etc. 761.
prisoner etc. 754 — repressionist^†.

verb

restrain, check — put under restraint, lay under restraint — enthral, enthrall, inthral^†, inthrall^†, bethral^†, bethrall^† — restrict — debar etc. (hinder) 706 — constrain — coerce etc. (compel) 744 — curb, control — hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds — hold in leash, hold in leading strings — withhold.
keep under — repress, suppress — smother — pull in, rein in — hold, hold fast — keep a tight hand on — prohibit etc. 761 — inhibit, cohibit^†.
enchain — fasten etc. (join) 43 — fetter, shackle — entrammel^† — bridle, muzzle, hopple^†, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot — swathe, swaddle — pin down, tether — picket — tie down, tie up — secure — forge fetters — disable, hamstring (incapacitate) 158.
confine — shut up, shut in — clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up — hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in — impound, pen, coop — inclose etc. (circumscribe) 229 — cage — incage^†, encage^† — close the door upon, cloister — imprison, immure — incarcerate, entomb — clap under hatches, lay under hatches — put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat — throw into prison, cast into prison — put into bilboes.
arrest — take up, take charge of, take into custody — take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive — captivate — lead captive, lead into captivity — send to prison, commit to prison — commit — give in charge, give in custody — subjugate etc. 749.

adjective

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.

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