straitjacket

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A jacketlike garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving their arms; often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
    — There’s a couple of people actually wearing duct-tape straitjackets.
  2. Any situation seen as confining or restricting. figuratively
    — our ever-increasing bureaucratic straitjacket of regulations
动词 v.
  1. To put someone into a straitjacket. literally,transitive
    — 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?
  2. To restrict the freedom of someone or something, either physically or psychologically. broadly,figuratively,transitive
    — 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?

词形变化

straitjackets plural strait jacket alternative strait-jacket alternative straightjacket alternative straitjackets present,singular,third-person straitjacketing participle,present straitjacketed participle,past straitjacketed past strait jacket alternative strait-jacket alternative straightjacket alternative

词汇关系

相关词
strait-laced

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English strait
English jacket
English straitjacket
From strait (“restrictive”) + jacket.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English strait
English jacket
English straitjacket
From strait (“restrictive”) + jacket.
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