I. noun
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And to Return, free of the shackles of human physical embodiment.
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Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with, Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little.
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Every few years the industry begins a campaign, backed in medical journals, for release from its shackles.
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It was as though she'd been let loose from shackles she hadn't even known she'd been wearing.
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These programs were designed to remove the shackles so that black people could reach the starting line on an equal footing.
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They put my grandson in shackles once on a little drug charge.
II. verb
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The company is shackled by a lack of capital.
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The prisoners were shackled together and forced to walk 600 miles across country.
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Baseball owners, once thought to be shackled by tradition, are on a roll.
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Emmanuel suffered a miscarriage two weeks later and was taken to the hospital shackled and handcuffed.
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Facing such a large first innings total, the batsmen were shackled by the need to save the game.
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He will already be there, shackled, so there is no danger.
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In a society still shackled by regulations and bureaucracy he was astonishingly impudent.
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In short, many Unix vendors are shackled by their desire to own everything.
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They destroyed the seminary, arrested Pigneau and shackled him in an eighty-pound wood and iron frame.