(~s, shackling, ~d)
1.
If you are ~d by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. (FORMAL)
The trade unions are ~d by the law.
...people who find themselves ~d 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 ~s 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 ~s 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 ~s on Billy’s hands.
N-PLURAL
4.
To ~ someone means to put ~s on them.
...the chains that were shackling his legs...
VERB: V n