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in chains

ADJECTIVE

confined

Synonyms

STRONGEST

circumscribed cramped imprisoned restrained restricted

STRONG

bound chilled compassed cramp detained grounded hampered held hog-tied iced immured incarcerated indisposed invalided jailed pent sick

WEAK

bedfast bedridden bottled-up cooped up flattened out in jail incommodious laid up locked up on ice sealed up shut-in

Antonyms

STRONG

healthy well

WEAK

free liberated unlimited

Example Sentences

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In Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital from which Hernández left in chains in 2022, Asfura held a paper-thin lead Monday in Honduras’s presidential race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Such activism, I believed then and I believe now, began in 1619, the moment enslaved Africans were deposited in chains on American shores.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

"People who are caught up in modern slavery aren't bound in chains as maybe some think. We could be sitting next to somebody... served by somebody who is in modern slavery."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024

Precious stones of astonishing size and brightness stared from their crowns and hung in chains round their necks and peeped out from all the places where anything was fastened.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

in chains

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