fetter

Speech parts

1. fetter - Noun

2. fetter - Verb

4. Fetter - Proper noun

Meaning

A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.

Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shackle hobble trammel block chain bind restrict hinder curb restrain impede hamper constrain obstruct pinion
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Antonyms

further support free help release oil
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Hypernyms

hold trammel bond restrain confine hamper

Hyponyms

cuff handcuff manacle

Phrases with the word

to fetter

Derivatives

Fetters

Examples

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia Maria Child

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter. Max Stirner

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. Lois McMaster Bujold

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. Booker T. Washington

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton

Close letter words and terms

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