All closeted synonyms
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C c verb closeted
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- incarcerate β to imprison; confine.
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- jail β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- commit β If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- remand β to send back, remit, or consign again.
- lock up β a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- cloister β A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- sequester β to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- ostracize β to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- nab β to arrest or capture.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- closet β A closet is a piece of furniture with doors at the front and shelves inside, which is used for storing things.
- immure β to enclose within walls.
- ice β the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- trammel β Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- intern β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- stockade β Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- pen β a female swan.
- circumscribe β If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- limit β the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- cage β A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- occlude β to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- impound β to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- separate β to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- conceal β If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- screen β a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- retire β a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- boycott β If a country, group, or person boycotts a country, organization, or activity, they refuse to be involved with it in any way because they disapprove of it.
- segregate β to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- blockade β A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- withdraw β to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- quarantine β a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- bottle up β If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- put away β to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- bastille β a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- fence in β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- lock in β a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- send up β an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
- shut in β closed; fastened up: a shut door.