fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
have fettered
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present perfectof fetter.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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He said, 'Here we have fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the gods.'
From Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Emotion, idealism, beauty—these have been always the evil spirits that have fettered art.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Amongst the men whose voices, opinions, or even presence might have fettered him, death had already stepped in, and was again coming to his aid.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
You have fettered yourself with your own bounds.
From Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
It assures us, of a verity, that mortal beliefs, and not a law of nature, have made men sinning and sick,—that they alone have fettered free limbs, and marred in mind the model of man.
From The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy
