shew hostility to

1) to confine; 2) to provoke; 3) to form

shew hostility to; treat as foe

to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)

adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.