TRAMELING

TRAMMEL

restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle

(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access); “restrict the use of this parking lot”; “limit the time you can spend with your friends”

trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel

(verb) catch in or as if in a trap; “The men trap foxes”

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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