noun

• (figurative) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
  "our ever-increasing bureaucratic straitjacket of regulations"

verb

• (literally) To put someone into a straitjacket.
  "What he asked himself now was,—could Miss Edge and Miss Baker, in order to get him out of the house, have set Birt onto Elizabeth, be in league with the man to break a poor old fellow down by simply driving his sad girl out of her wits? To have her straitjacketted even, muffled in a padded room?"
• (by extension) To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.
  "Charles for five whole days in a Victorian topper and tailcoat when he practically had to be straitjacketted to get him into tails for a three-hour wedding?"