fetters
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fet·ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] literary 1 LIMITthe things that prevent someone from being free 束缚；桎梏 SYN constraintsfetters of breaking the fetters of convention 打破传统的束缚2. SCJchains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past times 脚镣
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fetters• He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters.• His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters.• Ordinary citizens are in political fetters, unable to control their own lives.• Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?• Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters.• The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters.Origin fetters Old English feter; related to → FOOT1fet·ters nounChineseSyllable
free the being from things that prevent someone Corpus
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fetters
fet‧ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/
noun [plural] literary1. the things that prevent someone from being free
SYN constraints
fetters of
breaking the fetters of convention
2. chains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past times
fet‧ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/
noun [plural] literary1. the things that prevent someone from being free SYN constraints
fetters of
2. chains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past times
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