n. 1 manacles. shackles, fetters, handcuffs, gyves, chains, irons, Colloq cuffs, Slang bracelets, Brit darbies The manacles are cutting into his wrists
v. 2 shackle, fetter, handcuff, restrain, put or throw or clap in irons, chain, Colloq US cuff The manacled prisoner was led away 3 confine, inhibit, restrain, curb, check, control, hamper They felt manacled by the nine o'clock curfew