FETTERED Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in bound

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verb

past tense of fetter

as in tied

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains museum artifacts that serve as somber reminders of the days when slaves were fettered with irons

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to create difficulty for the work or activity of the belief that too many rules and restrictions fetter children's creativity

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Perhaps capitalism can be appropriately fettered within the confines of a select few cities, inspiring a nonviolent, nationwide socialist revolution. — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026 While some players were able to weather that storm – defenseman Joel Edmundson played all 82 games for the first time in a career often fettered by injuries – others paid a price. — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026

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Adjective

The team checked this directly by computing how much of each galaxy's baryon budget actually stayed bound to the system.

— Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2026
To help calculate a lower bound, Erdős assumed that the points would be laid out in a grid.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

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Boston ranks last in the AL in home runs (tied with the Cleveland Guardians), and the hitters don’t strike out or walk much, either.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Many cases are part of the outbreak in the Midwest, which could be the largest cyclospora outbreak on record if all tied to the same source, while others are part of separate investigations.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

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But even use of that system is being hampered because state officials haven’t been trained in how to enter cyclosporiasis cases yet.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
The search was hampered by the fact that Horan’s gravestone, like many at Blake Street, had eroded to the point that it could no longer be identified.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

Definition of hampered

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But some of the most poignant narratives come from Trojan women like Creusa, wife of Aeneas who escapes Troy and becomes a founding father for Rome, and Hector’s wife, Andromache, who is taken as a war captive by Achilles’s son.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Meanwhile, their son Telemachus is told by the goddess Athena (Zendaya) to seek news of his father and learns Odysseus is alive, but held captive by a nymph (Charlize Theron).

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

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Technological precision impeded the potential of inspiring victories from the likes of Iran, Croatia, and Egypt.

— Sean Gregory, Time, 20 July 2026
The result is a meditative action movie both immense and intimate, albeit one whose flow is impeded by the inherently episodic nature of the nonlinear source material and some questionable casting choices.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

Definition of impeded

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Robinson plays Henry, an enslaved person working on a plantation in Texas who’s wrongly accused of raping his master’s wife.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
One was an enslaved young poet whose words crossed the Atlantic before they were fully embraced at home.

— Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026

Definition of enslaved

Adjective

Without them, some would feel even bigger, more raw and dramatic, but others — especially in America, where many neutrals came specifically for the spectacle rather than for either team — could feel subdued and forgotten.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Obviously, the talking-points from Kiffin will be interesting to monitor, though the Tigers head coach seems to be more subdued in person compared to his social media presence.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

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