fetter
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Is fetter a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of fetter?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.Examples: "Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound."; "He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake."; "That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To shackle or bind up with fetters.Examples: "The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!"transitive
2. (transitive) To restrain or impede; to hamper.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary