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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | limitation; something that holds |
| Synonyms: | abridgment, arrest, ban, bar, barrier, bondage, bridle, captivity, chains, check, command, confinement, constraint, cramp, curb, decrease, deprivation, detention, determent, deterrence, embargo, fetters, hindrance, impediment, imprisonment, instruction, interdict, limit, manacles, obstacle, obstruction, order, pinions, prohibition, reduction, rein, repression, restriction, rope, stop, stoppage, straitjacket, string, taboo, weight |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | rim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border; top edge |
| Synonyms: | band, brim, brink, brow, circumference, confine, curb, end, fringe, hem, ledge, limit, line, lip, margin, outline, perimeter, periphery, ring, skirt, strip, terminus, top, verge |
| Antonyms: | center, middle |
| Main Entry: | snag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication in situation |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, bar, barrier, blockade, brake, bug*, catch, clog, crimp, cropper, crunch, curb, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, fix*, glitch, hamper, hitch, holdup, hole*, hurdle, impediment, inconvenience, knot, obstacle, obstruction, pickle, problem, puzzler, scrape, spot, stumbling block, the rub, tight spot |
| Antonyms: | advantage, convenience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, divider |
| Synonyms: | bank, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockade, bulwark, curb, dam, embankment, enclosure, facade, fence, fortification, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, levee, limitation, palisade, panel, paneling, parapet, partition, rampart, restriction, retainer, roadblock, screen, side, stockade, stop, surface |
| Main Entry: | circumscription |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restriction |
| Synonyms: | check, confinement, constraint, curb, curbing, fetter, fetters, limit, limitation, restraint, trammel, trammels |
| Main Entry: | edging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border |
| Synonyms: | borderline, boundary, brim, brink, curb, edge, fringe, hem, margin, outline, rim |
| Main Entry: | immobilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tie-up |
| Synonyms: | binding, clogging, confinement, curb, delay, fetters, gridlock, hold, jam*, leash, limit, lock, obstruction, restraint, restriction, shackles, stop, stoppage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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begirt, buried in, cabined, circumscribed, coactive, cohibitive, constrained, determinate, embedded, embosomed, encysted, enwreathing, fenced, hapteric, hedged in, hidebound, ice, immuring, imprisoned, in a ring fence, in custody, in lob's pound, in swaddling, jammed in, laid by the heels, landlocked, lapt, mewed up, nidulant, obvallate, on parole, put up, restrained, restringent, stiff, strait, under lock and key, under restraint, weather, wind
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| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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