Related Clues:
- Unable to retreat or escape
- Put under restraint
- Up a tree, say
- Reined in
- Trapped in a corner, say
- Held in check, with "in"
- A river protects British on the defensive
- Prevented from attacking
- Like a contained enemy
- Delayed from acting
- Unable to retreat
- Good spot to keep an enemy
- Good way to keep an enemy
- Kept in check, as enthusiasm
- Like a cornered wild animal