shackle
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Pronunciation[change]
- IPA (key): /ˈʃækəl/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: shac‧kle
Noun[change]
- (countable) 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.
Verb[change]
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- (transitive) To shackle is to limit or restrain what can be done.
- He could scarcely move after they shackled him.
- Marriage shackled him.