Synonyms of collaring

collaring 1 of 2

noun

as in confiscation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• confiscation
• claiming
• acquisition
• procurement
• ownership
• commandeering
• accession
• retention
• holding
• obtainment
• retaining
• proprietorship
• hands
• possession
• repossession
• control
• keeping
• power
• enjoyment
• dominion
• mastery
• command
• authority

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• relinquishment
• surrendering
• dispossession
• transferal
• nonpossession

collaring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of collar

1

as in arresting

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law

the juvenile delinquent was collared for robbing houses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arresting
• seizing
• grabbing
• apprehending
• restraining
• detaining
• capturing
• nailing
• pinching
• nicking
• committing
• snatching
• trapping
• nabbing
• running in
• jailing
• catching
• busting
• pulling in
• snaring
• imprisoning
• incarcerating
• hooking
• picking up
• bagging
• confining
• handcuffing
• grappling
• shackling
• holding
• landing
• binding
• snapping (up)
• getting
• locking (up)
• interning
• jugging
• remanding
• fettering
• enchaining
• immuring
• trammeling
• trammelling
• manacling
• rearresting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• discharging
• freeing
• releasing
• loosening
• springing
• emancipating
• liberating
• loosing
• unchaining
• unbinding

2

as in grabbing

to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly

she collared the boy before he could get into the cookie jar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grabbing
• catching
• snatching
• capturing
• seizing
• trapping
• getting
• snaring
• landing
• snagging
• corralling
• hooking
• bagging
• nabbing
• nailing
• netting
• grappling
• rapping
• copping
• snapping (up)
• taking hold (of)
• arresting
• nobbling
• glomming
• roping
• holding
• apprehending
• clutching
• detaining
• grasping
• lassoing
• securing
• haltering
• kidnapping
• clasping
• gloving
• gripping
• baying
• cornering
• entrapping
• abducting
• kidnaping
• fisting
• entangling
• meshing
• ensnaring
• rending
• latching (on or onto)
• wresting
• enmeshing
• fastening (on)
• spiriting (away or off)
• immeshing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• freeing
• releasing
• discharging
• liberating
• dropping
• loosening
• unhanding