verb

• Restrain (someone) as if with shackles.

  ‘his soul is so enfettered to her love’

  More example sentences

  • ‘For before this I had no Lord, nor King; but I was enfettered by the power of Satan, condemned to death, and entangled in sin and blindness.’
  • ‘I hope that I may yet find the rare chances to forget that I am an old, tired man who was enfettered by too many obligations.’

  Synonyms

  shackle, manacle, handcuff, clap in irons, put in chains, chain, chain up, bind, tie, tie up, tether, rope, hobble