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adjective

as in bolted

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verb

past tense of shackle
1
as in bound
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house

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2
as in hampered
to create difficulty for the work or activity of shackled by poverty and ignorance

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Recent Examples of shackled
Verb
All of the deportees were shackled at the ankles and wrists while in the air. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Immigrants held in the garage have been shackled while sleeping, the summary of whistleblower allegations continued. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 Nick Reiner appeared at the hearing in a brown jail uniform and was shackled to his chair. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026 Today, Barisone claims to have no memory of the time between being in his office up the hill and waking, the next day, with one arm shackled to a hospital bed. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 Otherwise, though, Moore, who like a year ago has been quick out of the blocks with early season goals against Cardiff City and Millwall, was well shackled despite putting in an energetic shift. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Its citizens held slaves, some of whom were shackled for committing adultery. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 Before Thursday’s hearing began, Schaefer, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and shackled at the ankles, smiled broadly and blew a kiss to his mother, Kia Walker, seated in the courtroom gallery. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 Mangione entered the courtroom Tuesday wearing a gray suit with his wrists shackled in front of him. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shackled
  1. bolted
  2. bound
  3. hampered
  4. tied
  5. handcuffed
  6. impeded
  7. anchored
  8. chained
Adjective
  • Sondheimer has bloodied his hands climbing over a fence to exit a bolted stadium.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike standard wheels, which rely solely on air pressure to push the tire against the rim, beadlocks use a bolted outer ring to physically sandwich the tire in place.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 June 2026
Definition of bolted
Verb
  • Throughout the event, a guy bounds around, introducing the recordists, then crouching to cue their recordings on a laptop, his dark, longish hair under a black dad cap bearing the club’s name.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Start with focused use cases where the data requirements are understood and basic (static versus real time), the operational consequence is bounded, and measurable value can be demonstrated.
    — Claudio Laterreur, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of bound
Verb
  • And that is part of what has hampered us from doing anything.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026
  • As ongoing offensive line struggles and continued pass coverage breakdowns hampered efforts, Washington faced dim prospects entering Week 3’s showdown with the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of hampered
Adjective
  • There is a punk poetry to that film, an unapologetic spirit that feels so tied to what Araki has done his whole career.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 30 July 2026
  • Unofficial results for two special elections held Tuesday show the Minnesota House will remain tied heading into the 2026 legislative session.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of tied
Verb
  • The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning of December 9, 2024, before he is handcuffed, searched and transported to the police station.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Several plastic storage bins were visible in the driveway, and a man was briefly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car before being released.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of handcuffed
Verb
  • The ongoing conflict that has driven people from their homes in Iran as well as an internet shutdown and a lack of full cooperation from the two governments partially impeded the team's efforts to get information.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The ongoing conflict that has driven people from their homes in Iran as well as an internet shutdown and a lack of full cooperation from the two governments partially impeded the team’s efforts to get information.
    — Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of impeded
Adjective
  • But the message needs to stay anchored to facts the firm can support.
    — David Ispiryan, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Lorenzo’s raft just missed the anchored catamaran, but his father, cousin and aunt weren’t as lucky.
    — Susan Young, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of anchored
Verb
  • The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of chained

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“Shackled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shackled. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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