Definition of shackle in English:

shackle

noun ˈʃak(ə)lˈʃæk(ə)l

1shacklesA pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.
镣铐；手铐；脚镣
Example sentencesExamples
- She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles.
- As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists.
- He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together
- She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
- The boy was wearing a blue and black prisoner uniform with broken shackles on his wrists and feet.
- They caught up surprisingly fast and one tackled me to the ground while the other placed shackles on my ankles and wrists.
- ‘I'm sorry,’ he said, and he took a pair of shackles and locked them around her wrists, chaining her to the wall.
- She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles.
- When Francis came to, he found himself in a cavernous room, suspended a metre or more above the ground, by sturdy shackles on his wrists and ankles.
- The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles.
- She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
- Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan.
- The shackles on his ankles and the handcuffs on his wrist made him ache.
- I noticed that she had cuffs around her wrists and ankles, like shackles without the chains.
- She could tell he was chained to a wall with iron shackles on each wrist and she assumed on his ankles too.
- If the pain from the raw electricity didn't kill the prisoner, the shackles would.
- As Jordan walked through the school gates it was as if iron shackles fell over his wrists and weighed him down.
- The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
- Your client is not in shackles in the prison itself, only when being transported to and from…
- He also wore shackles on his wrists and ankles as well as a metal collar around his neck to prevent his escape.
Synonyms
chains, fetters, irons, leg irons, manacles, handcuffs
bonds, tethers, ropes, restraints
informal cuffs, bracelets
archaic darbies, gyves, bilboes
1. 1.1 A situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something.
  society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism
  社会将摆脱种族主义和殖民主义的枷锁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature.
  When you've been trapped in the shackles of ballet most of your life, escaping to the world of contemporary dance can be liberating.
  A communal project raising ostriches in the drought stricken areas of the Karas region is giving rural farmers a chance to escape the shackles of poverty.
  Family support groups and consumers have come out in the open breaking the shackles of stigma and fighting for their rights.
  Was this not a historic opportunity to break free from the shackles of class oppression and found a new society?
  There's that secret burning desire in each of us that wants to break free from the shackles of obedience.
  Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system.
  By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint.
  If there's one thing Taha's an extremist about, it's shattering the shackles of cultural isolation.
  With the shackles of the world cast off, he ventures off into the unknown, braving the storm to find the rainbow on the other side - just as he wants.
  I see a people who have thrown off the shackles of witchcraft, which has bound people for centuries…
  McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans.
  With the bailout guarantee verbally and practically in place and the vision of a new economic dawn firmly put forth, the shackles of fear that had restrained excessive debt accumulation in the past have been shed.
  This leads me to ask what differences exist between those who have broken the shackles of a common dilemma and those who have not.
  You can mail order to your heart's content, free from the shackles of provincial law.
  It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand.
  These are the people who yearn to get away from the shackles of the mouse and the motherboard.
  The secondary meaning of free, to free comics from the shackles of prejudice, had yet to be addressed.
  She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression.
  With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system.
  Synonyms
  restrictions, trammels, restraints, constraints, straitjacket
  impediments, hindrances, obstacles, barriers, encumbrances, obstructions, checks, curbs
  ball and chain
2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
带销U形环，钩环螺栓
Example sentencesExamples
- So was the shackle which fastened it to the halyard.
1. 2.1 A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle.
  （连接悬架弹簧与车身的）吊耳

verb ˈʃak(ə)lˈʃæk(ə)l

[with object]

1Chain with shackles.
给…带上镣铐
the prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room
Example sentencesExamples
- The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore.
- He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary.
- They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords.
- They are on-screen together during virtually the entire time, and for much of it, chained together by a meter-long chain shackled to their wrists.
- Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together.
- Joshua snapped his fingers and chains appeared by magic shackling both Duncan's arms and legs.
- At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
- After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader.
- Lining the walls around him were other people: men, women, and even children, who were all chained and shackled, just as he was.
- She found herself chained and shackled to a big wooden board.
- He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him.
- A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain.
- When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor.
- In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
- When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards.
- But shortly after, his arms and legs were shackled, and he was taken to one of New York's most notorious lock-ups - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre.
- I do not think any prisoners in Australia are shackled.
- Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed.
- Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land.
- The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened.
Synonyms
chain, fetter, manacle
secure, tie (up), bind, tether, hobble
put in chains, put/clap in irons, handcuff
archaic gyve
1. 1.1 Restrain; limit.
  〈喻〉束缚；限制
  they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls
  他们企图通过施加新的管制来束缚石油和煤气公司。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to break free from the chains that shackle me to them.
  And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks.
  As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book.
  The ‘soft law’ approach allows states to tackle a problem collectively at a time when they do not want too strictly to shackle their freedom of action.
  For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained.
  Synonyms
  restrain, restrict, limit, constrain
  hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, handicap, hamstring, encumber, inhibit, check, curb, tie down
  tie someone's hands, cramp someone's style
  rare trammel

Origin

Old English sc(e)acul 'fetter', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel 'link, coupling'.

Rhymes

cackle, crackle, grackle, hackle, jackal, mackle

Definition of shackle in US English:

shackle

nounˈʃæk(ə)lˈSHak(ə)l

1shacklesA pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.
镣铐；手铐；脚镣
Example sentencesExamples
- They caught up surprisingly fast and one tackled me to the ground while the other placed shackles on my ankles and wrists.
- When Francis came to, he found himself in a cavernous room, suspended a metre or more above the ground, by sturdy shackles on his wrists and ankles.
- As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists.
- The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles.
- She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
- She could tell he was chained to a wall with iron shackles on each wrist and she assumed on his ankles too.
- She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
- I noticed that she had cuffs around her wrists and ankles, like shackles without the chains.
- He also wore shackles on his wrists and ankles as well as a metal collar around his neck to prevent his escape.
- ‘I'm sorry,’ he said, and he took a pair of shackles and locked them around her wrists, chaining her to the wall.
- As Jordan walked through the school gates it was as if iron shackles fell over his wrists and weighed him down.
- The boy was wearing a blue and black prisoner uniform with broken shackles on his wrists and feet.
- He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together
- She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles.
- Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan.
- The shackles on his ankles and the handcuffs on his wrist made him ache.
- The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
- Your client is not in shackles in the prison itself, only when being transported to and from…
- She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles.
- If the pain from the raw electricity didn't kill the prisoner, the shackles would.
Synonyms
chains, fetters, irons, leg irons, manacles, handcuffs
1. 1.1 Used in reference to something that restrains or impedes.
  〈喻〉枷锁，束缚
  society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism
  社会将摆脱种族主义和殖民主义的枷锁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can mail order to your heart's content, free from the shackles of provincial law.
  With the shackles of the world cast off, he ventures off into the unknown, braving the storm to find the rainbow on the other side - just as he wants.
  McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans.
  The secondary meaning of free, to free comics from the shackles of prejudice, had yet to be addressed.
  This leads me to ask what differences exist between those who have broken the shackles of a common dilemma and those who have not.
  With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system.
  It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand.
  This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature.
  I see a people who have thrown off the shackles of witchcraft, which has bound people for centuries…
  When you've been trapped in the shackles of ballet most of your life, escaping to the world of contemporary dance can be liberating.
  A communal project raising ostriches in the drought stricken areas of the Karas region is giving rural farmers a chance to escape the shackles of poverty.
  Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system.
  Was this not a historic opportunity to break free from the shackles of class oppression and found a new society?
  By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint.
  If there's one thing Taha's an extremist about, it's shattering the shackles of cultural isolation.
  She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression.
  With the bailout guarantee verbally and practically in place and the vision of a new economic dawn firmly put forth, the shackles of fear that had restrained excessive debt accumulation in the past have been shed.
  There's that secret burning desire in each of us that wants to break free from the shackles of obedience.
  Family support groups and consumers have come out in the open breaking the shackles of stigma and fighting for their rights.
  These are the people who yearn to get away from the shackles of the mouse and the motherboard.
  Synonyms
  restrictions, trammels, restraints, constraints, straitjacket
2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
带销U形环，钩环螺栓
Example sentencesExamples
- So was the shackle which fastened it to the halyard.
1. 2.1 A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle.
  （连接悬架弹簧与车身的）吊耳

verbˈʃæk(ə)lˈSHak(ə)l

[with object]

1Chain with shackles.
给…带上镣铐
Example sentencesExamples
- The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore.
- They are on-screen together during virtually the entire time, and for much of it, chained together by a meter-long chain shackled to their wrists.
- After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader.
- Lining the walls around him were other people: men, women, and even children, who were all chained and shackled, just as he was.
- When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards.
- They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords.
- When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor.
- But shortly after, his arms and legs were shackled, and he was taken to one of New York's most notorious lock-ups - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre.
- Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together.
- In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
- The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened.
- Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land.
- He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary.
- Joshua snapped his fingers and chains appeared by magic shackling both Duncan's arms and legs.
- Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed.
- A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain.
- She found herself chained and shackled to a big wooden board.
- At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
- He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him.
- I do not think any prisoners in Australia are shackled.
Synonyms
chain, fetter, manacle
1. 1.1 Restrain; limit.
  〈喻〉束缚；限制
  they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls
  他们企图通过施加新的管制来束缚石油和煤气公司。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to break free from the chains that shackle me to them.
  And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks.
  The ‘soft law’ approach allows states to tackle a problem collectively at a time when they do not want too strictly to shackle their freedom of action.
  For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained.
  As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book.
  Synonyms
  restrain, restrict, limit, constrain

Origin

Old English sc(e)acul ‘fetter’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel ‘link, coupling’.

词汇	shackle
释义	Definition of shackle in English: shackle noun ˈʃak(ə)lˈʃæk(ə)l 1shacklesA pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together. 镣铐；手铐；脚镣 Example sentencesExamples She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles. As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists. He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles. The boy was wearing a blue and black prisoner uniform with broken shackles on his wrists and feet. They caught up surprisingly fast and one tackled me to the ground while the other placed shackles on my ankles and wrists. ‘I'm sorry,’ he said, and he took a pair of shackles and locked them around her wrists, chaining her to the wall. She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles. When Francis came to, he found himself in a cavernous room, suspended a metre or more above the ground, by sturdy shackles on his wrists and ankles. The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles. She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists. Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan. The shackles on his ankles and the handcuffs on his wrist made him ache. I noticed that she had cuffs around her wrists and ankles, like shackles without the chains. She could tell he was chained to a wall with iron shackles on each wrist and she assumed on his ankles too. If the pain from the raw electricity didn't kill the prisoner, the shackles would. As Jordan walked through the school gates it was as if iron shackles fell over his wrists and weighed him down. The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away. Your client is not in shackles in the prison itself, only when being transported to and from… He also wore shackles on his wrists and ankles as well as a metal collar around his neck to prevent his escape. Synonyms chains, fetters, irons, leg irons, manacles, handcuffs bonds, tethers, ropes, restraints informal cuffs, bracelets archaic darbies, gyves, bilboes 1.1 A situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something. society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism 社会将摆脱种族主义和殖民主义的枷锁。 Example sentencesExamples This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature. When you've been trapped in the shackles of ballet most of your life, escaping to the world of contemporary dance can be liberating. A communal project raising ostriches in the drought stricken areas of the Karas region is giving rural farmers a chance to escape the shackles of poverty. Family support groups and consumers have come out in the open breaking the shackles of stigma and fighting for their rights. Was this not a historic opportunity to break free from the shackles of class oppression and found a new society? There's that secret burning desire in each of us that wants to break free from the shackles of obedience. Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system. By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint. If there's one thing Taha's an extremist about, it's shattering the shackles of cultural isolation. With the shackles of the world cast off, he ventures off into the unknown, braving the storm to find the rainbow on the other side - just as he wants. I see a people who have thrown off the shackles of witchcraft, which has bound people for centuries… McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans. With the bailout guarantee verbally and practically in place and the vision of a new economic dawn firmly put forth, the shackles of fear that had restrained excessive debt accumulation in the past have been shed. This leads me to ask what differences exist between those who have broken the shackles of a common dilemma and those who have not. You can mail order to your heart's content, free from the shackles of provincial law. It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand. These are the people who yearn to get away from the shackles of the mouse and the motherboard. The secondary meaning of free, to free comics from the shackles of prejudice, had yet to be addressed. She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression. With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system. Synonyms restrictions, trammels, restraints, constraints, straitjacket impediments, hindrances, obstacles, barriers, encumbrances, obstructions, checks, curbs ball and chain 2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something. 带销U形环，钩环螺栓 Example sentencesExamples So was the shackle which fastened it to the halyard. 2.1 A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle. （连接悬架弹簧与车身的）吊耳 verb ˈʃak(ə)lˈʃæk(ə)l [with object] 1Chain with shackles. 给…带上镣铐 the prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room Example sentencesExamples The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore. He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary. They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords. They are on-screen together during virtually the entire time, and for much of it, chained together by a meter-long chain shackled to their wrists. Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together. Joshua snapped his fingers and chains appeared by magic shackling both Duncan's arms and legs. At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat. After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader. Lining the walls around him were other people: men, women, and even children, who were all chained and shackled, just as he was. She found herself chained and shackled to a big wooden board. He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him. A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain. When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor. In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass. When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards. But shortly after, his arms and legs were shackled, and he was taken to one of New York's most notorious lock-ups - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre. I do not think any prisoners in Australia are shackled. Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed. Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land. The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened. Synonyms chain, fetter, manacle secure, tie (up), bind, tether, hobble put in chains, put/clap in irons, handcuff archaic gyve 1.1 Restrain; limit. 〈喻〉束缚；限制 they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls 他们企图通过施加新的管制来束缚石油和煤气公司。 Example sentencesExamples I want to break free from the chains that shackle me to them. And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks. As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book. The ‘soft law’ approach allows states to tackle a problem collectively at a time when they do not want too strictly to shackle their freedom of action. For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained. Synonyms restrain, restrict, limit, constrain hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, handicap, hamstring, encumber, inhibit, check, curb, tie down tie someone's hands, cramp someone's style rare trammel Origin Old English sc(e)acul 'fetter', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel 'link, coupling'. Rhymes cackle, crackle, grackle, hackle, jackal, mackle Definition of shackle in US English: shackle nounˈʃæk(ə)lˈSHak(ə)l 1shacklesA pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together. 镣铐；手铐；脚镣 Example sentencesExamples They caught up surprisingly fast and one tackled me to the ground while the other placed shackles on my ankles and wrists. When Francis came to, he found himself in a cavernous room, suspended a metre or more above the ground, by sturdy shackles on his wrists and ankles. As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists. The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles. She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles. She could tell he was chained to a wall with iron shackles on each wrist and she assumed on his ankles too. She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists. I noticed that she had cuffs around her wrists and ankles, like shackles without the chains. He also wore shackles on his wrists and ankles as well as a metal collar around his neck to prevent his escape. ‘I'm sorry,’ he said, and he took a pair of shackles and locked them around her wrists, chaining her to the wall. As Jordan walked through the school gates it was as if iron shackles fell over his wrists and weighed him down. The boy was wearing a blue and black prisoner uniform with broken shackles on his wrists and feet. He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles. Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan. The shackles on his ankles and the handcuffs on his wrist made him ache. The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away. Your client is not in shackles in the prison itself, only when being transported to and from… She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles. If the pain from the raw electricity didn't kill the prisoner, the shackles would. Synonyms chains, fetters, irons, leg irons, manacles, handcuffs 1.1 Used in reference to something that restrains or impedes. 〈喻〉枷锁，束缚 society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism 社会将摆脱种族主义和殖民主义的枷锁。 Example sentencesExamples You can mail order to your heart's content, free from the shackles of provincial law. With the shackles of the world cast off, he ventures off into the unknown, braving the storm to find the rainbow on the other side - just as he wants. McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans. The secondary meaning of free, to free comics from the shackles of prejudice, had yet to be addressed. This leads me to ask what differences exist between those who have broken the shackles of a common dilemma and those who have not. With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system. It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand. This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature. I see a people who have thrown off the shackles of witchcraft, which has bound people for centuries… When you've been trapped in the shackles of ballet most of your life, escaping to the world of contemporary dance can be liberating. A communal project raising ostriches in the drought stricken areas of the Karas region is giving rural farmers a chance to escape the shackles of poverty. Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system. Was this not a historic opportunity to break free from the shackles of class oppression and found a new society? By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint. If there's one thing Taha's an extremist about, it's shattering the shackles of cultural isolation. She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression. With the bailout guarantee verbally and practically in place and the vision of a new economic dawn firmly put forth, the shackles of fear that had restrained excessive debt accumulation in the past have been shed. There's that secret burning desire in each of us that wants to break free from the shackles of obedience. Family support groups and consumers have come out in the open breaking the shackles of stigma and fighting for their rights. These are the people who yearn to get away from the shackles of the mouse and the motherboard. Synonyms restrictions, trammels, restraints, constraints, straitjacket 2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something. 带销U形环，钩环螺栓 Example sentencesExamples So was the shackle which fastened it to the halyard. 2.1 A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle. （连接悬架弹簧与车身的）吊耳 verbˈʃæk(ə)lˈSHak(ə)l [with object] 1Chain with shackles. 给…带上镣铐 Example sentencesExamples The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore. They are on-screen together during virtually the entire time, and for much of it, chained together by a meter-long chain shackled to their wrists. After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader. Lining the walls around him were other people: men, women, and even children, who were all chained and shackled, just as he was. When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards. They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords. When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor. But shortly after, his arms and legs were shackled, and he was taken to one of New York's most notorious lock-ups - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre. Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together. In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass. The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened. Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land. He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary. Joshua snapped his fingers and chains appeared by magic shackling both Duncan's arms and legs. Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed. A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain. She found herself chained and shackled to a big wooden board. At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat. He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him. I do not think any prisoners in Australia are shackled. Synonyms chain, fetter, manacle 1.1 Restrain; limit. 〈喻〉束缚；限制 they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls 他们企图通过施加新的管制来束缚石油和煤气公司。 Example sentencesExamples I want to break free from the chains that shackle me to them. And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks. The ‘soft law’ approach allows states to tackle a problem collectively at a time when they do not want too strictly to shackle their freedom of action. For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained. As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book. Synonyms restrain, restrict, limit, constrain Origin Old English sc(e)acul ‘fetter’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel ‘link, coupling’.
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