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shackle

noun as in restraint

verb as in restrain

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He was never charged and his lawyers say he was shackled to his bed for several days and couldn’t speak privately with doctors or legal counsel.

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Released from the shackles of captaincy, a weight lifted from those once-slumped shoulders.

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They had previously been held in a US detention facility before being flown out on a US military plane in shackles, their lawyers said.

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He was also notable as a recruiter of aimless youths who wanted to be tough guys; for them the Nazi Storm Trooper units were the place to cast off the shackles of civilized inhibitions.

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“Go do the revolution, baby,” Bob says as Perfidia marches out the door, her postpartum depression urging her to prove that she’s more than an aching body shackled to a baby.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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