ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral † ,
inthrall † , bethral † , bethrall † ; restrict; debar &c (hinder) 706; constrain; coerce &c
(compel) 744; curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within
bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash,
hold in leading strings; withhold.
keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight
hand on; prohibit &c 761; inhibit, cohibit † .
enchain; fasten &c (join) 43; fetter, shackle; entrammel † ; bridle, muzzle, hopple † , gag,
pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle;
pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring
(incapacitate) 158.
confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up,
button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose &c (circumscribe)
229; cage; incage † , encage † ; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate,
entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat;
throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make
prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit
to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate &c 749.
Adj. restrained, constrained; imprisoned &c v.; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under
lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody,
doing time &c (prisoner) 754; cohibitive † ; coactive &c (compulsory) 744 [Obs.].
stiff, restringent † , strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound † .
ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; cabined cribbed confined [Macbeth]; in Lob's
pound, laid by the heels.
752. [Means of restraint.] Prison -- N. prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den,
cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell † , house of
correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon † , penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round
house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black
hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure &c 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement,
penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.]; calaboose, chauki † , choky † , thana † ;
workhouse [U.S.].
Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench.
bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff,
straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples † ; vice, vise.
yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins;
bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord &c
(fastening) 45; cavesson † , hackamore [U.S.], headstall, jaquima [U.S.], lines, ribbons.
bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall;
paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence,
chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.
drag &c (hindrance) 706.