fetter
Example Sentences
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At another point, the actor becomes one of two mortarboard-wearing orators who pull at the straps that fetter two shocked listeners.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2016
And the commission stated it was not seeking to fetter the charity's discretion to fund Cage "for all time regardless of changing circumstances".
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2015
Not only did I beat the seasons, the Somerset clay, and the confusing, unpredictable temperaments of my plants, I overcame Walter’s dogged campaign to rein me in, to fetter my unexpected, late-flowering creativity.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2015
Huang is something else: a person at war with all the constraints that would fetter him to anything less than an identity capacious enough to contain all his contradictions and ambivalence.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
