fetter
To shackle or bind up with fettersTo shackle or bind up with fetters.
» Let's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
Meaning
2 senses(transitive)To shackle or bind up with fetters.
заковыватьzakovyvatʹ
restrain with fetters
(transitive)To restrain or impede; to hamper.
сковыватьskovyvatʹ, свя́зыватьsvjázyvatʹ
Examples
5 sentencesLet's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
Have you never felt fettered by a bond of love?
deHattest du schon einmal einen Liebesknecht, der dir nie im Wege stand?
When you dedicate your life to a holy cause as a duty, you are fettered.
ruКогда святому делу, словно долгу своему, ты жизнь посвящаешь – на тебя накладывают путы.
Whatever they directed, it was in vain to expostulate; fetters, and bread and water, were the sure consequences of resistance.
Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot.
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Forms
fetters, fettering, fettered, fetteredSynonyms
1 synonyms- restrain with fetters:shackle
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle