transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃæk(ə)l ]
( shackles, shackling, shackled)
1.
If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. ( FORMAL )
The trade unions are shackled by the law.
...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed by/to n , be V-ed by/to n
2.
If you throw off the shackles of something, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do. ( LITERARY )
...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
N-PLURAL : with supp
3.
Shackles are two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone’s wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
He unbolted the shackles on Billy’s hands.
N-PLURAL
4.
To shackle someone means to put shackles on them.
...the chains that were shackling his legs...
VERB : V n