Synonyms for shackled
shack·led

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1. fettered, shackledadjective

   bound by chains fastened around the ankles

   Synonyms:
   fettered

   Antonyms:
   unbound

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1. List of paraphrases for "shackled":

   chained, handcuffed

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1. Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer:

   I don't know why everybody's surprised of Bret Baier lack of discipline. I mean Bret Baier's been out there for 15 months, Bret Baier's completely undisciplined, yet, for about a month Bret Baier's been led around, shackled, handcuffed by Bret Baier staff, made to read from the teleprompter.

2. Suzanne Sisley:

   With marijuana you have to go through added layers of government red tape. It highlights the way marijuana research is being shackled by politics.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   The United States government maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. ... Today’s statement recognizes that the U.S.-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.

4. William E. Borah:

   Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.

5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.