verb
definition
To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
definition
(by extension) To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
example
This law would effectively shackle its opposition.
verb
definition
To shake, rattle.
adjective
definition
Restrained by shackles, chained.
Examples of shackled in a Sentence
The rest of us are mindless morons shackled by our " limiting beliefs " .
They 'd be kicking and rolling about - exactly how you would be if you were shackled up.
To understand this, you have only to imagine a baseball pitcher trying to throw a fastball with his legs shackled.
The pellet wire is shackled to the pellet or drum and the dan and picking-up wires shackled together are also shackled to the drum.
The two single legs of each back strop are shackled on to the links at each lower corner of the otter doors.
To this stopper is shackled the independent wire which in turn is shackled to the flat link in the end of the trawl warp.
Following stunning, the animal was shackled and hoisted onto an overhead rail - the slaughter line - which ran through the slaughter hall.
You flipped out when you realized you were shackled to me and tried not to kill me the next time we met.