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Enchain

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To restrain with, or as if with, chains. transitive

    "Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing."

  2. 2
    restrain or bind with chains wordnet
  3. 3
    To link together. transitive

Etymology

From en- + chain.

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