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What is another word for
handcuffing
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Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
Present participle for to restrain with chains or manacles
Present participle for to arrest or apprehend someone
Verb
▲
Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
hindering
hampering
impeding
obstructing
inhibiting
encumbering
trammelling
trammeling
cramping
handicapping
shackling
fettering
stymieing
checking
hobbling
curbing
blocking
clogging
manacling
hamstringing
embarrassing
frustrating
foiling
barring
cumbering
baulking
UK
balking
US
baffling
entangling
interfering with
holding back
hog-tying
holding up
short-circuiting
tying up
hanging up
getting in the way
cramping one's style
dragging your feet
retarding
restraining
restricting
thwarting
crippling
slowing down
constraining
delaying
slowing
preventing
bridling
borking
limiting
stalling
stopping
throwing a spanner in the works
interrupting
getting in the way of
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
derailing
crimping
interfering
standing in the way of
putting a brake on
setting back
scuppering
arresting
prohibiting
halting
repressing
stonewalling
curtailing
confining
crabbing
deterring
binding
weighing down
giving a hard time
stifling
forestalling
tying
disadvantaging
inconveniencing
sandbagging
leashing
disrupting
burdening
debarring
shelving
detaining
braking
fazing
opposing
holding
cutting off
choking off
chaining
choking
bogging down
saddling with
slowing up
closing off
shutting down
shutting off
putting off
discontinuing
entrammelling
entrammeling
suspending
straitening
circumscribing
debilitating
controlling
regulating
constricting
moderating
impairing
suppressing
overloading
preventing from making progress
sidelining
incommoding
discommoding
oppressing
bothering
charging
putting a crimp in
putting straitjacket on
throwing monkey wrench in
bottlenecking
smothering
damming
rattling
discomfiting
freezing
setting limits on
imposing limits on
tiing one's hands
neutralizing
US
muzzling
postponing
putting at a disadvantage
disconcerting
contravening
counteracting
resisting
neutralising
UK
placing at a disadvantage
reducing
retardating
averting
taking out
giving disadvantage
interdicting
screwing up
fouling up
putting out of commission
forbidding
withholding
deferring
protracting
pausing
outlawing
shutting out
lousing up
boxing in
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
enjoining
making difficult
warding
remitting
proroguing
putting back
bringing to screeching halt
holding off on
staving off
keeping back
intermitting
prolonging
holding over
taking down
making late
backing off
reining in
holding in
staying
holding down
keeping in
putting on brakes
stemming the flow of
sabotaging
throttling
obscuring
screening
scotching
complicating
defeating
confounding
spoiling
snookering
puzzling
nonplussing
upsetting
monkeying with
mystifying
stumping
flummoxing
cornering
pigeonholing
putting paid to
putting the kibosh on
dead-ending
giving the run around
putting on hold
hanging fire
holding off
putting on back burner
throwing a monkey wrench into
heading off
blockading
warding off
precluding
circumventing
barricading
intercepting
nipping in the bud
putting a stop to
closing
ruining
dashing
obviating
putting an end to
fending off
avoiding
countering
quashing
nullifying
stemming
defending against
guarding
blocking off
stopping up
jamming
banning
blocking up
plugging
cutting short
occluding
beating
ending
evading
squelching
messing up
decelerating
breaking
undermining
crushing
proscribing
deflecting
clogging up
walling off
destroying
bunging up
subverting
defending
squashing
ruling out
turning aside
subduing
terminating
wrecking
quelling
containing
diverting
keeping
procrastinating
stuffing
overturning
checkmating
cooling
sealing
caulking
annulling
staunching
parrying
forfending
stoppering
preempting
loading
lading
repulsing
clobbering
pre-empting
circumnavigating
undoing
disappointing
closing out
closing up
disallowing
skirting
sidestepping
anticipating
plugging up
blocking out
doing for
breaking up
steering clear of
picking off
bringing to an end
keeping at bay
excluding
saddling
dissuading from
weighting
smashing
fencing
walling
demolishing
shaking
devastating
helping
filibustering
lumbering
marring
slackening
eliminating
extinguishing
ceasing
overburdening
delimiting
quitting
shattering
lessening
eradicating
negating
dropping
discouraging
miring
finishing
harming
overwhelming
ostracizing
US
rebuffing
repelling
freighting
obliterating
annihilating
denying access
nixing
quieting
scuttling
decimating
botching
cancelling
UK
offsetting
canceling
US
bucking
bilking
estopping
corking
straining
packing
keeping waiting
shutting in
cracking down on
turning off
spiking
bottling up
outwitting
stamping out
bunging
choking up
filling
gagging
playing for time
mucking up
tying down
putting the stopper on
keeping lid on
breaking off
counterplotting
throwing cold water on
bringing to a standstill
ostracising
UK
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
upsetting the applecart
desisting from
leaving off
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
putting the lid on
heading off at pass
getting in before
cutting out
second-guessing
laying off
beating someone to the draw
getting ahead of
providing against
keeping off
packing up
beating someone to the punch
knocking off
stealing a march on
packing in
beating someone to it
giving over
sidetracking
straitjacketing
clotting
weakening
damaging
getting out of
capping
suffocating
petering out
standing off
escaping
bypassing
attacking
dishing
catching
worrying
dispatching
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
disturbing
affecting
snagging
tethering
incapacitating
ravaging
influencing
tampering
causing to wait
causing to stay
boycotting
stultifying
confusing
making impossible
conflicting
troubling
blacklisting
disabling
threatening
filling up
strangling at birth
reining
indisposing
staving
tying someone's hands
commandeering
abolishing
crashing
unsettling
juking
taking wind out of
ditching
wasting time
swallowing
muffling
jamming up
stanching
keeping from happening
invalidating
hemming in
forefending
bollixing
killing
getting bogged down
putting the damper on
throwing a curve
holding at bay
fighting back
governing
aborting
withdrawing
disempowering
buying time
intervening
renouncing
nobbling
standing in the way
breaking down
choking back
taming
preparing for
narrowing down
keeping within the limits of
congesting
bottling
crossing
burying
blanking
intruding on
keeping in check
bringing to end
bringing to a halt
employing delaying tactics
embargoing
destabilizing
US
tempering
stunting
countermining
pulling in
slackening pace
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
biting back
making illegal
bogging
demoralizing
US
attenuating
beating down
taking wind out of sails
getting the better of
putting end to
putting the mockers on
causing setback
cutting in
taking away
forbidding to
emasculating
sapping
diminishing
decreasing
lagging
abating
heaping
cramming
brimming
softening
destabilising
UK
challenging
demoralising
UK
fortifying
embogging
reefing
loitering
qualifying
dragging through the mud
kicking the can down the road
bolting
securing
locking
jam-packing
topping
backfilling
ramming
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
fastening
protecting
strengthening
latching
poking full of holes
letting up
damming up
topping off
ramming in
filling in
cutting down
cutting back
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
hitting the brakes
damping
saving
letting
chillin
dampening
chilling
adjourning
excepting
rescheduling
overcoming
tabling
injuring
mothballing
refusing
binding up
taping up
corking up
respiting
routing
hanging on
resisting attack
holding the line
holding the fort
continuing
toppling
queering
blowing
overthrowing
vitiating
razing
shrouding
extending
wracking
keeping out
taxing
lengthening
closing one's doors to
keeping at arm's length
freezing out
locking out
counting out
unbuilding
skinning
impoverishing
crazing
waiving
snuffing out
working against
making a mess of
putting at risk
bringing down
canceling out
bringing to naught
raining on someone's parade
rendering ineffective
ballsing up
cancelling out
playing havoc with
blowing a hole in
wiping out
getting rid of
putting on the back burner
setting aside
taking a rain check on
carrying over
putting on ice
holding in abeyance
putting in cold storage
putting over
laying on the table
laying over
giving rain check
bringing to a close
bringing to a stop
blowing the whistle on
putting a cork in
winding up
closing down
pulling the plug on
overtaxing
slapping down
clamping down on
stressing
more ❯
“The complicated bureaucratic procedures continue to
handcuff
the efforts to improve efficiency in our organization.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to restrain with chains or manacles
shackling
binding
fettering
chaining
manacling
trammelling
trammeling
gyving
pinioning
securing
enfettering
restraining
enchaining
cuffing
putting in irons
clapping in irons
putting in chains
putting handcuffs on
tying
tethering
chaining up
hobbling
tying up
confining
roping
leashing
fastening
hog-tying
tying down
constraining
holding
immobilizing
US
lashing
trussing
immobilising
UK
holding fast
hogtying
hogtieing
pinning down
tying someone's hands
holding captive
putting a straitjacket on
hitching
clapping
enslaving
entrapping
mooring
strapping
jailing
US
harnessing
gaoling
UK
entrammeling
entrammelling
snaring
having on a tight leash
hitching up
putting a lead on
putting a leash on
clipping someone's wings
trapping
pinning
holding down
trussing up
fixing
anchoring
bridling
enthralling
lacing
joining
girding
banding
tightening
cinching
affixing
stringing
battening
picketing
bending
tiing one's hands
taping
fixing together
locking up
beslaving
indenturing
bethralling
imprisoning
capturing
incarcerating
immuring
connecting
selling into slavery
reducing to slavery
subjecting to forced labour
condemning to servitude
condemning to slavery
linking
knotting
coupling
rivetting
splicing
riveting
clinching
make fasting
binding up
bringing together
more ❯
“The married traffic officer aged 34 was gunned down as he sat in his patrol car trying to
handcuff
the man, who had been driving a stolen BMW car in Dib Lane, Oakwood.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to arrest or apprehend someone
detaining
arresting
apprehending
busting
nabbing
doing
gaoling
UK
jailing
US
nailing
collaring
nicking
pinching
taking in
hauling in
picking up
taking prisoner
pulling in
taking into custody
putting in jail
putting the cuffs on
throwing in jail
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