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shackle
noun as in restraint
Example Sentences
Essex Police discovered a "kidnap kit" consisting of hand and ankle shackles, rope, 400 metal cable ties and bottles of chloroform.
Democrats will undoubtedly use a higher insurance limit the next time they’re in charge as an excuse to impose more shackles on banks.
“I was a little shackled by the Japanese custom that you are only a mom if you go through natural birth, so I had my first child without an epidural,” Nishimura said.
Hostages freed earlier said they were with him in Hamas’s underground tunnels, where he was kept in shackles and still had a piece of shrapnel lodged in his eye.
With earlier, often emaciated, shackled, beaten hostages, "they had things in their blood exams, in their enzymes, that we couldn't understand".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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