ENCHAINED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

enchained

verb

past tense of enchain

as in bound

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains learned to stop being enchained by fear and live a full life

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The old ranch hand cut a surprisingly sprightly figure in his warehouselike clinic, bounding from room to room.

— Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Up to a million wild black-footed ferrets once bounded in the grasslands from Canada to Mexico, between Arizona and Kansas.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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Know More The dispute became public earlier this year as Washington sought to negotiate new health agreements with African governments that tied US assistance to commitments on health systems, data and other areas.

— Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Its analysis found that 74% of those mentions were tied to real-world projects rather than coursework, an indication students are trying to demonstrate their applied experience.

— Corynn Winston, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

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The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

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