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All entrammel synonyms

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verb entrammel

  • block β€” A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
  • hinder β€” to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • choke β€” When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
  • congest β€” to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
  • fill β€” to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • hamper β€” to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • impede β€” to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
  • obstruct β€” to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • plug β€” an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • seal β€” a member of the U.S. Navy’s special operations forces.
  • burden β€” If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
  • close β€” When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
  • curb β€” If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
  • encumber β€” Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
  • fetter β€” a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
  • glut β€” to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
  • jam β€” to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • leash β€” a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
  • occlude β€” to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
  • shackle β€” a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
  • stopper β€” a person or thing that stops.
  • stuff β€” the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
  • tie β€” to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
  • trammel β€” Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
  • stop up β€” to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • repress β€” to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
  • restrict β€” to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
  • constrain β€” To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
  • contain β€” If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
  • control β€” Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
  • hold down 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.
  • inhibit β€” to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
  • restrain β€” to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • suppress β€” to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
  • tame β€” changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
  • abstain β€” If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • bit β€” A bit of something is a small part or section of it.
  • bridle β€” A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
  • check β€” Check is also a noun.
  • cheque β€” A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
  • clog β€” When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
  • cook β€” When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
  • deny β€” When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • hobble β€” to walk lamely; limp.
  • hog-tie β€” If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
  • ice β€” the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
  • manacle β€” a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
  • moderate β€” kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
  • muzzle β€” the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
  • refrain β€” to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
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