straitjacket
ಸ್ಟ್ರೈಟ್ಜ್ಯಾಕೆಟ್
definition
verb
We have been locked in seclusion, placed in restraints, chemically and physically straitjacketed , lobotomized, shocked and beaten because we protested too much.
restrain with a straitjacket.
noun
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket .
a strong garment with long sleeves that can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
example
This is a crude attempt to 'straitjacket' the working class, to prevent it from adopting an independent class viewpoint.
It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a 'straitjacket' and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
the treaty should not be used as a tool to 'straitjacket' international trade
the treaty should not be used as a tool to 'straitjacket' international trade
That is a deliberate attempt to 'straitjacket' the winner of Brazil's presidential election, due in October.
There are undoubtedly areas where the government is moving more and more to 'straitjacket' the courts.
the government is operating in an economic 'straitjacket'
Sometimes they put me in there without a 'straitjacket' if I'm not too violent.
After the treatment, we see her standing dazed in a 'straitjacket' , muttering unintelligibly, her hair standing on end, sparks flying from her head.
The empty sleeves are wrapped around the figure and stapled like a 'straitjacket' .
He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a 'straitjacket' and his feet were chained together.
Defining public use narrowly would put a 'straitjacket' on governments in devising solutions to difficult social problems.
Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the 'straitjacket' .
the government is operating in an economic 'straitjacket'
The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity, a multi-coloured 'straitjacket' and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.
Any form of independent resistance by workers, any attempt to break out of the 'straitjacket' and control of the trade unions, is to be prevented under all circumstances.
My dad asked whether this man should merely be removed from office, or whether he should be placed into a 'straitjacket' immediately after.
Mr McNamara, for the defendant, submits that the Framework does not impose a 'straitjacket' but that in any event the matter was approached correctly in terms of the flowchart in Figure 5.
The author regularly seems less like a journalist interviewing a subject than a therapist who has foolishly removed her patient's 'straitjacket' so they can head off for a jaunt in the jungle.
We must break through the mental 'straitjacket' and realize that another world is possible.
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one 'straitjacket' .
Slipping on a 'straitjacket' of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
The political 'straitjacket' of the two-party system that has confined the American working class is objectively finished.
Their role is to 'straitjacket' the working class and organize defeats.
He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a 'straitjacket' .
Of course this does not mean that the courts have to put their reasoning into the 'straitjacket' of first construing the statute in the abstract and then looking at the facts.
I thought of this as the men in white suits put the white 'straitjacket' on me and shepherded me into a white vehicle leading me to a white building with shiny white linoleum floors, white walls and indeed white everywhere.
They quarantined the city workers' struggle, confining it within the political 'straitjacket' of collective bargaining and appeals to the big business politicians.
The author is so keen to break out of the 'straitjacket' of conventional narrative that he forgets to include a plot.
A quick strong jerk and the 'straitjacket' burst up high into the air.
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