Definition of "shackled" [shackled]

• Restrained by shackles, chained. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of shackle. (verb)

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• "Rather than remain shackled to a waning star, the captain filed for bankruptcy and divorce in 1905."
• "But there was never a chance, never a moment, when he might run free of a cage about him, of the walls of a room restricting him, of a chain shackled to the collar about his throat."
• "For example, if demand for rice rises, Vietnamese farmers — who remain shackled by many longstanding regulations of communism — aren’t always able to respond quickly."