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Definition

to restrain freedom

Half-naked, bruised, and shackled to the wall.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

shackled = chained (freedom is restrained)

He won't until I've rearranged his handcuffs and shackled him to one of the stair supports.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
He holds his tray awkwardly, balanced on his fingertips since his wrists are shackled with a short chain between them.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
I am too old now—but I was not intended for a world in which women shackle themselves in garments that are not even made of cloth.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Maureen shuffled into the courtroom, shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
Belittled, betattled, spectacled and shackled, and pitifully snagged and by the tail wagged, with shilly and shally no more shall you dally.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
But Constance was shackled into place.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
In the Prince's name we will shackle you fast.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
And other, darker memories: Valentine's hand cracking across the side of his face, a dead falcon, the angel shackled in the Waylands' cellar.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
Clarkson acquired manacles, branding irons, thumbscrews, leg shackles, and gruesome implements that were used to force a slave's jaws open.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
She had shaken off the shackles.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The Horde army vanished into the trees and Thomas was led away on a horse, hopelessly shackled.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Iron shackles held him hard against the cold stone wall.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Hundreds of political prisoners, shackled.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
For when the Boss really drank, what tender inhibitions ordinarily shackled up his tongue were absolutely removed.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Shackled, walking through the perfumed things honeybees love, Paul D hears the men talking and for the first time learns his worth.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
I knew that in the fever of my mind and in the most unquiet regions of my heart I would be shackled by slavery as long as I remained a writer.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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