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Synonyms and Antonyms of manacling
- manacled the prisoner to the wall
- in this situation, the police are manacled by unnecessary regulations
clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)
balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restraining
binding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying (or tieing)
arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retarding
barricading, blockading, blocking, roadblocking
choking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocating
baffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwarting
derailing, disrupting, sabotaging
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