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- adjective Restrained by
shackles ,chained . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shackle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bound by chains fastened around the ankles
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Examples
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Rather than remain shackled to a waning star, the captain filed for bankruptcy and divorce in 1905.
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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.
CHAPTER XXXII 2010
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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.
Chapter 32 1917
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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.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Army Colonel while he attempts to break a shackled detainee.
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Army Colonel while he attempts to break a shackled detainee.
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I've been playing RPGs for 20+ years, and I cannot remember any time when I felt "shackled" by a particular genre.
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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.
Head of Commission on Indian Residential Schools Resigns Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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The BBC explains how the rioters are 'shackled' by living in a poor place.
Decline Of British Industry Laban 2005
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