straitjacketting

Verb

straitjacket (third-person singular simple present straitjackets, present participle straitjacketing, simple past and past participle straitjacketed)

1. (literally, transitive) To put someone into a straitjacket.
   • What he asked himself now was,—could Miss Edge and Miss Baker, in order to get him out of the house, have set Birt onto Elizabeth, be in league with the man to break a poor old fellow down by simply driving his sad girl out of her wits? To have her straitjacketted even, muffled in a padded room?1948, Henry Green [pseudonym; Henry Vincent Yorke], [chapter 1], in Concluding: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1950, →OCLC, page 11

   Synonyms:

   jacket

2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To restrict the freedom of someone or something, either physically or psychologically.
   • Charles for five whole days in a Victorian topper and tailcoat when he practically had to be straitjacketted to get him into tails for a three-hour wedding?1977, Doreen Tovey, chapter 4, in The Coming of Saska (Feline Frolics; 7), Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers, published 2007, →ISBN, page 42

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