Lack of freedom to act
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- be in bondage tosomethingidiom
- be locked insomething
- bondage
- bound
- boxed in
- captive
- chain
- chainsomeonetosomething
- disempowered
- disempowering
- disenfranchisement
- hand
- heel
- lock
- non-voluntary
- nonindependence
- oppressed
- option
- paralysis
- paralytic
- qualified
- regimented
- servitude
- shackle
- someone'shands are tiedidiom
- tethered
- thumb
- tie
- tool
- tyranny
- undersomeone'sthumbidiom
- under the heel ofsomething/someoneidiom