SHACKLES meaning: Restraining devices typically for prisoners

We found 18 dictionaries that define the word shackles:

General (12 matching dictionaries)

shackles: Merriam-Webster
shackles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
shackles: Collins English Dictionary
shackles: Vocabulary.com
Shackles, shackles: Wordnik
shackles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
shackles: Wiktionary
shackles: Dictionary.com
shackles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Shackles (Praise You), Shackles (film), Shackles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
shackles: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
shackles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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shackles: Legal dictionary

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shackles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

shackles: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

shackles: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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shackles: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Shackles)

▸ noun: "Shackles (Praise You)" is the debut single by American gospel singer-songwriter duo Mary Mary.
▸ noun: a 2005 film directed by Charles Winkler and written by Donald Martin.

Opposite:

freedom, liberty, unrestrained

Phrases:

shipboard shackles, foot shackles, shackles a perp, leg shackles, more...

Adjectives:

old, heavy, political, mental, constitutional, broken, last, economic, social, traditional, colonial

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