enchain
verb (used with object)
to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain.
enchains
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present tense formof enchain (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Can this be delusion, or infatuation, or is it a species of witchery that thus deceives, enchains, and blinds a people, in all other respects of quick imagination and natural talents?
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
The willing listen to him from delight, the unwilling and opposite minded because he enchains them.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
A weird kind of beauty, too, that enchains us, and transfixes us as that of the deadly beautiful Medusa.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
What spell enchains her to this gentle care?
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
Rousseau enchains passion in its service, as Madame de la Fayette, as even Prévost, had not been able to do before.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
