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shackle English

Meaning shackle meaning

What does shackle mean?
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shackle Noun

— A shackle is a restraint, originally leg-irons which made movement slow and difficult. By extension, it means anything that limits what people do. Laws are meant as shackles to prevent governments doing whatever they wish.

shackle Verb

— To shackle is to limit or restrain what can be done. He could scarcely move after they shackled him. Marriage shackled him.

shackle

— noun a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) — noun a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar — verb (= pinion) bind the arms of — verb (= fetter) restrain with fetters

Synonyms shackle synonyms

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shackle English » English

fetter chain winch thruster machinery compartment thruster thrust propeller televisor saw rudder propeller maneuvering device handcuff drill bow manacle bind trammel tie tie up tether pinion bond imprison hobble gyve enchain tie down secure restraint restrain hopple hamper fasten confine window insulator subordinate subject shackles shackle insulator rope up restriction restrict put in chains plight padlock moor manacles looped link lock link

Topics shackle topics

What do people use shackle to talk about?
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Physical actions Arrange

Tie

Conjugation shackle conjugation

How do you conjugate shackle?

shackle · verb

Examples shackle examples

How do I use shackle in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Shackle these men with the rest of the deserters.
Sadok, shackle those cables together.
Take that down and shackle it to the other truck.
Iolaus, grab that shackle!
Shackle!
No money problems to shackle us to the ground.
We're gonna need every man we can get if we're gonna shackle with those wiseguys.
Shackle, chain. despair, prison, death.
He hates the chains that people shackle themselves with.
That undoes the shackle.
You can cuff me, shackle me, gag me if you have to, just let me see Alex, make eye contact so that he knows that his granddad loves him.
See, Benny was working the hole and he got hit with a shackle.
Not with The Shackle.
Introducing The Shackle!
If I shackle you I'll squash your guts out.
Well, we'll shackle him, in case.
What I meant, maybe we could start a fire over by that wall, and it'd melt the shackle off.
But why shackle him in chains?
We're gonna need every man we can get if we're gonna shackle with those Wiseguys.
You worried that old Spike might be busting loose of your shackle?
And the shackle in the middle?
Put his left leg in the shackle.
People who don't understand that progress is our birthright, that the greatest danger is. that we shackle our genius as a people.
Shackle this thing.
In my shackle in the mountains.
I've got a key lock. with a hinged shackle.
Guards, shackle him.
If I knew, would I shackle myself with the tedium of asking you for help?
Perhaps I'll shackle them in the basement.
Would he shackle me if I'd known?
You know you are forbidden to remove your shackle.
We'll shackle you with children like prisoners are with chains!
Why would you shackle yourself to just one person no matter how groovy they are?
Remati shackle.

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Requiring the government to test the factual basis of its decision to use force is not a shackle to be thrown off, but an incentive for forethought and a psychologically stabilizing support.

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