fetters in English

noun
1
a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles.
he lay bound with fetters of iron
verb
1
restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles.
a ragged and fettered prisoner
synonyms:shacklemanaclehandcuffclap in ironsput in chainschain (up)cuffenfetter

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1. To remove the fetters of wickedness,

2. The prisoner was kept in fetters.

3. 7 Young people weary of countless restrictions and fetters.

4. Young people weary of countless restrictions and fetters.

5. They will run wild freed from the fetters of control.

6. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. 

7. Befetter ( third-person singular simple present Befetters, present participle Befettering, simple past and past participle Befettered ) ( transitive) To confine with fetters; restrain as if by fetters

8. 4 He had often been bound with fetters and chains, but he snapped the chains apart and smashed the fetters; and nobody had the strength to subdue him.

9. Zedekiah is seized, blinded, bound in copper fetters, and dragged off to Babylon.

10. Jeremiah was put in stocks, imprisoned in “the house of fetters,” and thrown into a cistern.

11. In April 2012, writer Will Fetters told Collider that the script was inspired by Kurt Cobain.

12. As a man in fetters cannot escape his punishment, so the young man is drawn into sin.

13. Answer: Those confined by fetters and all chained together, so that the slightest movement of one would arouse all the others from sleep.Bilboes is derived from the name of the place Bilboa, in Spain, where the iron fetters were made.

14. For about a dozen years, he had endured slavery and then imprisonment —for a time in iron fetters.

15. I don't do it only for myself , I'll break down the fetters which astrict many people's brain therefrom .

16. + 7 Then he blinded the eyes of Zed·e·kiʹah, after which he bound him with copper fetters to bring him to Babylon.

17. 7 They slaughtered Zed·e·kiʹah’s sons before his eyes; then Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar blinded Zed·e·kiʹah’s eyes, bound him with copper fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

18. Then they brought him down to Gazʹa and bound him with two copper fetters, and he became a grinder of grain in the prison.

19. Anarchism, also known by the name libertarian socialism, (as opposed to authoritarian socialism), adresses this question of removing all fetters for achieving human freedom

20. 8 It is an iron ayoke, it is a strong band; they are the very handcuffs, and chains, and shackles, and fetters of bhell.

21. + 3 He had his haunt among the tombs; and up to that time absolutely nobody was able to bind him fast even with a chain, 4 because he had oftentimes been bound with fetters and chains, but the chains were snapped apart by him and the fetters were actually smashed; and nobody had the strength to subdue him.

22. They rebelliously free themselves from the context of patriarchal norms by means of breaking through imposed stereotypes and boundaries as well as spiritual fetters.

23. As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free. Charlie Chaplin 

24. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

25. Then Jehovah’s spirit empowered him,+ and the ropes on his arms became like linen threads that were scorched with fire, and his fetters melted off his hands.

26. (Ge 39 Verses 7-20) It was “in the prison hole” that “with fetters they afflicted his feet, into irons his soul came.” —Genesis 40:15; Psalm 105:18.

27. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.

28. 21 One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.

29. + 11 So Jehovah brought against them the army chiefs of the king of As·syrʹi·a, and they captured Ma·nasʹseh with hooks* and bound him with two copper fetters and took him to Babylon.

30. Red Pepper "Forward!" he called Blithely and boldly to the officer; while Crates, with loud lamentations, was protesting his innocence to the warrior who was putting fetters upon him.

31. It had seized him on many occasions,*+ and he was repeatedly bound with chains and fetters and kept under guard, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the isolated places.)

32. The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take Counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, "Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!" read more

33. An open mind is free from the fetters of prejudice, which by one dictionary is defined as follows: “A judgment or opinion, favorable or unfavorable, formed beforehand or without due examination; a mental decision based on other grounds than reason or justice; especially, a premature or adversely biased opinion.”