Synonyms for shackles
shack·les

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1. shacklesnoun

   Synonyms:
   fetter, manacles

2. shacklesnoun

   Restraints, (usually metal) often joined by a chain, placed around a prisoner's wrists or ankles to restrict their movement.

   Synonyms:
   manacles, fetter

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1. shackles

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bondage, bonds, chains, custody, durance, duress, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, imprisonment, irons, manacles

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1. shacklesnoun

   Synonyms:
   fetters, gyves, irons, manacles, chains, hampers

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1. List of paraphrases for "shackles":

   fetters, chains, irons, handcuffs, cuffs, strings

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1. Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha):

   205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

2. Barack Obama:

   Today, America chooses to cut loose the shackles of the past, so as to reach for a better future for the Cuban people, for the American people, for our entire hemisphere and for the world.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Winter is a long descent Into hell, a daring Kidnapper, on whose lips Rest the word always. Look upon it as the rains Do, leafless trees blowing Earthward like constraints, Shackles of the soul.

4. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

5. Donald Trump:

   It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.