enchain
verb (used with object)
to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain.
has enchained
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present perfectof enchain (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The foe which has enchained Angelo's brother, the foe from which, suspecting us not at all, Nicola flees—the policemen of the Americans!
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
An Old Hebrew warns against the temptress and Samson agonizingly invokes a veil over the beauty that has enchained him.
From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
