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Verb

hamper, trammel, clog, fetter, shackle, manacle mean to hinder or impede in moving, progressing, or acting. hamper may imply the effect of any impeding or restraining influence. hampered the investigation by refusing to cooperate trammel suggests entangling by or confining within a net. rules that trammel the artist's creativity clog usually implies a slowing by something extraneous or encumbering. a court system clogged by frivolous suits fetter suggests a restraining so severe that freedom to move or progress is almost lost. a nation fettered by an antiquated class system shackle and manacle are stronger than fetter and suggest total loss of freedom. a mind shackled by stubborn prejudice a people manacled by tyranny

Examples of shackle in a Sentence

Noun placed shackles on the legs of the prisoners the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons Verb The guard shackled the prisoner. unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun This hunk of billet aluminum solves both problems by providing a closed shackle mount that’s designed to fit snug with the winch’s fairlead. — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2020 The 60-year-old had been attempting to repair the Row of Life’s bow shackle in preparation for a tropical cyclone that was bearing down on her position in the remote Pacific. — Andrew Lewis, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2022 This shackle may suggest prisoners or enslaved people at the site. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022 Weinstein, 69, was ushered into the courtroom with a waist shackle that attached to his handcuffs. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021 At her feet lay a broken shackle and chains to symbolize the end of slavery. — Reece Jones, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021 The front leaf spring rear-lower shackle bolts may be loose. — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2021 If anti-vax folks mistake a key for a shackle, that’s only because their selfishness is part of the problem. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 July 2021 When the crew tried to raise it, the shackle connecting it to the cable failed, Enbridge spokesman Michael Barnes said. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The parents used chains and padlocks to shackle some of the children to beds. — Stella Chan And Ray Sanchez, CNN, 13 July 2022 Houdini said that no prison could hold him and that no shackles can shackle him. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022 No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Unlike the investment of time that’s required for most TV shows these days, which shackle you to a dozen or more episodes that are essentially standalone movies themselves, at least in terms of length. — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 Unlike the investment of time that’s required for most TV shows these days, which shackle you to a dozen or more episodes that are essentially standalone movies themselves, at least in terms of length. — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 Unlike the investment of time that’s required for most TV shows these days, which shackle you to a dozen or more episodes that are essentially standalone movies themselves, at least in terms of length. — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 Unlike the investment of time that’s required for most TV shows these days, which shackle you to a dozen or more episodes that are essentially standalone movies themselves, at least in terms of length. — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 Unlike the investment of time that’s required for most TV shows these days, which shackle you to a dozen or more episodes that are essentially standalone movies themselves, at least in terms of length. — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 See More

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