Synonyms for shackled
shack·led

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1. fettered, shackledadjective

   bound by chains fastened around the ankles

   Synonyms:
   fettered

   Antonyms:
   unbound

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1. List of paraphrases for "shackled":

   chained, handcuffed

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1. Carolyn Sufrin:

   It's always a negotiation, we don't have time to negotiate with the guard to say,' You need to remove these restraints now.' If a( baby's) shoulder gets stuck and we need to do emergency maneuvers that require the woman to move, we can't do that if she's shackled.

2. Simon Cheng:

   I was hung (handcuffed and shackled) on a steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose for hours after hours, sometimes, they ordered me to do the 'stress tests', which includes extreme strength exercise such as 'squat' and 'chair pose' for countless hours. They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons.

3. Ben Crump:

   Fortunately, a man who is paralyzed and fighting for his life after being shot seven times in the back, will no longer have to deal with the pain of having his ankles and wrist shackled and the traumatic stress of being under armed guard.

4. Suzanne Sisley:

   With marijuana you have to go through added layers of government red tape. It highlights the way marijuana research is being shackled by politics.

5. Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer:

   I don't know why everybody's surprised of Bret Baier lack of discipline. I mean Bret Baier's been out there for 15 months, Bret Baier's completely undisciplined, yet, for about a month Bret Baier's been led around, shackled, handcuffed by Bret Baier staff, made to read from the teleprompter.