shackled
IPA: ʃˈækʌɫd
adjective
- Restrained by shackles, chained.
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Examples of "shackled" in Sentences
- Army Colonel while he attempts to break a shackled detainee.
- The BBC explains how the rioters are 'shackled' by living in a poor place.
- Rather than remain shackled to a waning star, the captain filed for bankruptcy and divorce in 1905.
- I've been playing RPGs for 20+ years, and I cannot remember any time when I felt "shackled" by a particular genre.
- For example, if demand for rice rises, Vietnamese farmers — who remain shackled by many longstanding regulations of communism — aren’t always able to respond quickly.
- But there was never a chance, never a moment, when he might run free of a cage about him, of the walls of a room restricting him, of a chain shackled to the collar about his throat.
- Justice LaForme also said the panel cannot allow itself to be 'shackled' by bureaucratic requirements, and that the commissioners, not government, must be able to decide how to spend their $58-million budget.
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