fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
is fettering
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present progressiveof fetter (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And yet it is this same servile imitation of classical and foreign models that is fettering the progress of art in America.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
