FETTERING Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

fettering

verb

present participle of fetter

as in binding

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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as in impeding

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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By binding to both, Imdelltra brings T cells into close contact with tumor cells, helping the immune system destroy the cancer.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
The company subsequently made that commitment legally binding in contracts with European national governments and the Commission.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of binding

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Police said the car was swerving across lanes, impeding traffic and forcing other drivers to brake or take action to avoid her car.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Advertisement But other allies of Jackson say an overcautious campaign is impeding the Bernie Sanders progressive and stalwart labor champion from connecting with voters.

— Julia Terruso, Time, 26 Oct. 2026

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Golden State held on to a five-point lead early in the fourth quarter but the Dream fought back, tying it up on a Gray jumper at the halfway point of the final quarter.

— Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
The Tar Heels lost 77-74 to Villanova on a Kris Jenkins buzzer-beater, but Paige’s game-tying shot remains one of the most replayed moments in UNC history.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026

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The officials said the restrictions were disrupting high-speed military drones, hampering Ukraine's ability to intercept Russian attacks and conduct operations along the front line.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Kyiv sees this as an attempt to pressure it into concessions by hampering its aerial defense and military operations.

— David Hickey, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of hampering

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Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off.

— Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
Luck was not widespread among Wednesday’s Florida Lotto, Fantasy 5 and Powerball drawings, confining itself to a single ticket.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

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Plus, there’s silica to softly blur the look of pores and texture without hindering your glow.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 28 Oct. 2026
The Federal Election Commission experienced a filing system outage on Tuesday, hindering candidates and political action committees from filing 24- and 48-hour finance reports with a week to go before the midterm elections.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

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Democratic gains could put more grid-upgrade costs on tech developers, raising project costs just as access to power is constraining new construction.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
And conducting that work within Anthropic risked constraining White Circle from sharing it with the public.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of constraining

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Hospitals in the north lack health workers, medicines and equipment, while ambulance services are severely limited and insecurity is obstructing medical deliveries, Tedros said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
After midnight on the eve of the court hearing's first day Tuesday, prosecutors sought to add new charges of obstructing Congress with an unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint — a maneuver the magistrate judge said was improper and unheard of.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

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