Definition of "fettered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of fetter. (verb)
• Bound by chains or shackles (adjective)
• Restricted (adjective)

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• "The spluttering defensiveness, the creepy vindictiveness, all signs of a brain fettered with incipient rot."
• "This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature."
• "Anyone who says that the industry is 'fettered' by too much regulation and government interference, needs a swift kick in the ass!"