Fetter
noun
A chain or shackle for the feet.
He was kept in fetters in the small, dank cell.
Often appears as...
- in fetters
- break one's fetters
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Formal
verb
To restrict or bind with chains.
The prisoners were fettered to the wall.
Often appears as...
- fetter someone to
- fetter someone with chains
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Formal
verb
To prevent from progressing, be a hindrance.
Her low confidence fetters her ability to speak publicly.
Often appears as...
- fetter one's progress
- fetter with doubt
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Formal
noun
A chain or shackle for the feet.
He was kept in fetters in the small, dank cell.
Often appears as...
- in fetters
- break one's fetters
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To restrict or bind with chains.
The prisoners were fettered to the wall.
Often appears as...
- fetter someone to
- fetter someone with chains
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To prevent from progressing, be a hindrance.
Her low confidence fetters her ability to speak publicly.
Often appears as...
- fetter one's progress
- fetter with doubt
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
Used to describe actual physical restraints, typically around a person's ankles.
The historical museum displayed fetters used by ancient soldiers.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Oppression
Represents situations where someone is held captive or oppressed.
The poet described society's norms as fetters limiting free expression.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Chains
Can be used symbolically to evoke the image of being trapped or confined.
In many stories, characters seek to escape the fetters of their past.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
Used to describe actual physical restraints, typically around a person's ankles.
The historical museum displayed fetters used by ancient soldiers.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Oppression
Represents situations where someone is held captive or oppressed.
The poet described society's norms as fetters limiting free expression.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Chains
Can be used symbolically to evoke the image of being trapped or confined.
In many stories, characters seek to escape the fetters of their past.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
Used to describe actual physical restraints, typically around a person's ankles.
The historical museum displayed fetters used by ancient soldiers.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Oppression
Represents situations where someone is held captive or oppressed.
The poet described society's norms as fetters limiting free expression.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Chains
Can be used symbolically to evoke the image of being trapped or confined.
In many stories, characters seek to escape the fetters of their past.
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Imprisoned in Pakistan PIPE...
visa our hands were shackled with these old kind of iron fetters all very medieval looking and quite frightening I suppose really I was definitely scared
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Self-Assembling Robots...
It's quite likely that this new generation of robots won't look anything like the robots that we see around us today, but that's exactly why artificial evolution might help. Discovering novel designs by processes that are unfettered by the constraints
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Imprisoned in Pakistan PIPE...
visa our hands were shackled with these old kind of iron fetters all very medieval looking and quite frightening I suppose really I was definitely scared
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
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David E. Sanger
American Journalist
Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
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Kim Edwards
American Author
One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
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Johan Eliasch
Swedish Businessman
Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
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David Ricardo
British Economist
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
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Yasser Arafat
Leader
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
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Paul Gillmor
American Politician
In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.
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William Blake
English Poet
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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Kevin McCloud
British Designer
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
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David E. Sanger
American Journalist
Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
Quote examples
Kim Edwards
American Author
One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
Quote examples
Johan Eliasch
Swedish Businessman
Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
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David Ricardo
British Economist
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
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Yasser Arafat
Leader
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
Quote examples
Paul Gillmor
American Politician
In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.
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William Blake
English Poet
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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Kevin McCloud
British Designer
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.
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