All manacling synonyms

verb manacling

• cheque — 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.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• hog-tie — If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
• ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
• cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
• entrammel — To hamper by entangling.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hold in — 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.
• rein in — control, restrain
• send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• hold — 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.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• cuff — The cuffs of a shirt or dress are the parts at the ends of the sleeves, which are thicker than the rest of the sleeve.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
• hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• govern — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
• keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• delimit — If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.