Anagrams of: METAPHRASTS

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• a basket usually with a cover

• prevent the progress or free movement of

• put at a disadvantage

• Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.

• Intelligent.

• Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).

• Higher in pitch than required.

• Having an intense, acrid flavour.

• Sudden and intense.

• Illegal or dishonest.

• Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.

• Exact, precise, accurate; keen.

• Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.

• Stylish or attractive.

• Observant; alert; acute.

• Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.

• Steep; precipitous; abrupt.

• (of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.

• Tactical; risky.

• Piercing; keen; severe; painful.

• Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.

• Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.

• Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.

• Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.

• Hungry.

• A tumult or disturbance.

• A noise, an uproar, a disturbance

• To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.

• short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches

• short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches

• an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child

• a person who smashes something

• a very attractive or seductive looking woman

• a conspicuous success

• a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram

• (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus

• low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

• United States painter (1898-1954)

• New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)