Straitjacket is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAITJACKET in dictionary:

VERB:
• to confine in or as if in a straitjacket
• restrain with a straitjacket.
• impose severely restrictive measures on (a person or activity)
NOUN:
• a garment for restraining a person with violent tendencies, also STRAIGHTJACKET
• a strong garment with long sleeves which can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
• a severe restriction on freedom of action, development, or expression
• anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
• a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
• a garment for restraining a person with violent tendencies
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cover or overgarment of strong material (as canvas) used to bind the body and especially the arms closely in restraining a violent prisoner or patient

Words related to STRAITJACKET

straightjacket31 straitjacketed28 straitjacketing29 straitjackets26 straitwaistcoat20

Words that contain STRAITJACKET

straitjackets26 straitjacketed28 straitjacketing29

How to use STRAITJACKET in a sentence

• In this coherent, rational farm-region of my strait-jacket dreams the minor details, according to season and to the labour of men, did change.
• And on the instant I was Darrell Standing, the life-convict, lying in his strait-jacket in solitary.
• I recognized the sore as one of the sort caused by the strait-jacket.
• When I planned my ruse of the afternoon, I knew perfectly that I should soon find myself in a strait-jacket.
• His first move was to take the straitjacket in his own hands and order me to stand.
• Though a straitjacket should always be adjusted by the physician in charge, I knew that as a matter of fact the disagreeable duty was invariably assigned to the attendants.
• No incidents of my life have ever impressed themselves more indelibly on my memory than those of my first night in a strait-jacket.
• This, however, was not the fault of the straitjacket.
• It will be recalled that I placed a piece of glass in my mouth before the strait-jacket was adjusted.
• Ask him to please come here at once and ease this strait-jacket.
• XVII After fifteen interminable hours the strait-jacket was removed.
• On more than one occasion, indeed, the attendant placed me in the strait-jacket during the day for refusing to obey some trivial command.
• Once, during the third week of my nights in a strait-jacket, I refused to take certain medicine which an attendant offered me.
• He and the attendants knew that I usually kept a trick or two even up the sleeve of a strait-jacket, so they took added precautions.
• Yet, on either of these days, had I been in the private institution which I had recently left, I should have occupied a cell and worn a strait-jacket.
• They drove me raving distracted with questions about it, so that I had to be put in a strait-jacket.
• One man said I was mad and ought to be put in a strait-jacket.
• Feverishly they began to bind him in the strait-jacket which they had taken from the ambulance.
• CHAPTER VI Locke struggled with superhuman effort to release himself from the strait-jacket in which he was held prisoner.
• Locke, disheveled and weak, had released himself from the strait-jacket, and with the speed of a panther had ascended the stairs.
• When the boy approached manhood, I grew troubled lest this strait-jacket existence in Styria should dwarf him mentally and morally.
• I must leave Burgundy and go back to my strait-jacket.

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