strait-jacket in English
noun
1
a strong garment with long sleeves that can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket .
verb
1
restrain with a straitjacket.
We have been locked in seclusion, placed in restraints, chemically and physically straitjacketed , lobotomized, shocked and beaten because we protested too much.
noun
straightjacket
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1. Ben, naked except for the strait-jacket, and blue with cold, was heaving and struggling and bellowing.