shackle

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

shackles

1.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
The prisoner lay in shackles in his gloomy cell.
Đồng nghĩa: fetter
2.
A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
3.
(figuratively, plural normally)(figurative, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
4.
(nautical) A length of cable or chain equal to 12½ fathoms (75 feet or about 22.9 metres), or later to 15 fathoms (90 feet or about 27.4 metres).
5.
(UK, dialectal)A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
6.
(UK, dialectal)(dice games) A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shackles

V_ing/Gerund

shackling

V_ed/pp

shackledno-table-tags

1.
(transitive)To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun etymology 1 sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
Đồng nghĩa: beshackle, cuff, enshackle, fetter, handcuff, manacle
2.
(transitive)To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1.1, etymology 1 sense 1.1.3, etc.).
3.
(transitive)To provide (something) with a shackle.
4.
(figuratively, transitive)To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
This law would effectively shackle its opposition.
Đồng nghĩa: bind, hamshackle, tie
5.
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To combine (a substance) with another substance.
6.
(intransitive, reflexive)Of two things: to connect or couple together.
7.
(UK, dialectal, transitive)To rattle or shake (something).
8.
(UK, dialectal, transitive)To put (something) into disorder; specifically (agriculture), to cause (standing stalks of corn) to fall over.
9.
(UK, dialectal, intransitive)Often followed by about: to be idle or lazy; to avoid work.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

fetterbeshacklecuffenshacklehandcuff manacle bindhamshackletie hobbledragbar

Trái nghĩa

uncuffunfetter unhandcuff unmanacle unshackle free liberate unbind untie

Cùng gốc / liên quan

shackledom shacklyD-shackleenshackleharp shackleH-shackleshackle boltshackle-boneshackledshackle jointshacklelessspan shacklespring shackle

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English shakel, schakkyl, schakle, from Old English sċacul, sċeacel, sċeacul (fetter, shackle), from *skakul, from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz (shackle), possibly from *skakaną (to shake; to swing; to escape), from Proto-Indo-European *skeg-, *skek- (to shake; to stir).