straitjacket
noun
a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
straitjacketed
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past participleof straitjacket.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof straitjacket.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
straitjacketnouna garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
Example Sentences
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It’s the one that feels most weirdly and defiantly its own thing, the one least straitjacketed by Marvel conventions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
At a time when theater, the fabulous invalid, is straitjacketed by the pandemic, it’s heartening and a little wistful-making to have it recalled in all its messy midcentury glory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021
And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
