fetters

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nounbindings; bondage

Synonyms for fetters

noun bindings; bondage

Antonyms for fetters

handcuffs

noun. manacles

bracelets
braces
chains
clamps
cuffs
fetters
iron rings
shackles
snaps
wristlets

Word Origin & History

Old English fetor "chain or shackle for the feet," from Proto-Germanic *fetero (cf. Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter "fetter," in modern Dutch "lace, string," Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiöturr, Swedish fjätter), from PIE root *ped- "foot" (see foot (n.)). The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters.

Example Sentences for fetters

In you I was sure of a mind strong enough to break the fetters of habit.

When did you feel the fetters fust busting from your spirit?

For the fetters which bind us can not be shaken off, before the conscience is emancipated.

What would the world do with Joan Sullivan if she ever broke her fetters and went to it?

He struggled and struggled and strove to break his fetters, but without avail.

It was, as he expressed it, by the heat of their own passions that he welded the fetters for their own limbs.

Every day added a link to the fetters of that strange freedom.

Her emotions were struggling from the fetters with which she tried to bind them.

The fetters gall her, but she has not courage to shake them off.

Atahualpa was led forth in fetters and chained to the stake.

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Synonyms for fetters

Antonyms for fetters

handcuffs

immobilization

restraint

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Antonyms for fetters

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handcuffs

immobilization

restraint

Synonyms for fetters

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