Let's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
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Shackle
/ˈʃækl̩/
Synonyms for "shackle" (211 found)
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Closest matches (43)
Strong matches (63)
Related words (105)
holdbackhopplehopplesimmureimpedeimpedimentimpoundinhibitinvolveironironskeepkeep inkeep in custodykeep in detentionlamelashleading stringsleashlime
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Verb(4 words)
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10 entriesMore specific
8 entriesCollocations
11 entriesheavy shackleiron shackleleg shacklerusty shackleshackle anklesshackle freedomshackle policyshackle prisonersshackle with chainsshackle wristswrist shackle
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- pranga noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πέδη noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Arabic
2 entries- غِلّ noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- قَيْد noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Bulgarian
1 entries- окови noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Catalan
2 entries- grillons noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- grilló noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 手銬 /手铐 noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Danish
1 entries- jern noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Dutch
1 entries- boeien noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Esperanto
1 entries- mankateno noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Finnish
2 entries- kahle noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- kahleet noun (restraint on one’s action, etc. — see also restraint)
French
3 entries- entrave noun (restraint on one’s action, etc. — see also restraint)
- fers noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- menottes noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Galician
4 entries- braga noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- ferropea noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- ferros noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- grilón noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
German
2 entries- Fessel noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- Handschellen noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌽𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹 noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֲזִקִּים noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Hungarian
2 entries- bilincs noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- béklyó noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Interlingua
2 entries- ferros noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- manica noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Irish
1 entries- iarnach noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Italian
4 entries- ceppi noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- ceppo noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- ferri noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- maniglia noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Japanese
1 entries- 手錠 noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Korean
1 entries- 수갑 noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Latin
1 entries- vincula noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Macedonian
2 entries- оков noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- пранга noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Malayalam
1 entries- വിലങ്ങ് noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Norwegian
1 entries- jern noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Old English
1 entries- cosp noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Spaunsel noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Polish
1 entries- kajdany noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Portuguese
4 entries- algema noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- ferros noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- grilhetas noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- grilhão noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Russian
4 entries- кандалы́ noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- нару́чники noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- око́вы noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- путы noun (restraint on one’s action, etc. — see also restraint)
Spanish
2 entries- grillete noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- grillos noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Swedish
1 entries- boja noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Telugu
2 entries- బంధనాలు noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- సంకెళ్ళు noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Turkish
2 entries- kelepçe noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- pranga noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Ukrainian
4 entries- кайда́ни noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- пу́та noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- пу́та noun (restraint on one’s action, etc. — see also restraint)
- пу́то noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Vietnamese
3 entries- xiềng noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- xiềng xích noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
- xích noun (restraint fitted over an appendage)
Sample sentences
34 total sentences available.
You cannot shackle the BDSM community and beat it into submission.
Source: tatoeba (8786902)
I bought a shackle for the cow.
Source: tatoeba (10480639)
Labor advocates call it debt bondage, a prime example of modern-day slavery that can shackle workers to abusive employers for years while they pay off their debts.
Source: tatoeba (11126603)
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