Definición de fetter en inglés:

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Pronunciación: /ˈfɛtə/


(usually fetters)
1A chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles: he lay bound with fetters of iron
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shackles, manacles, handcuffs, irons, leg irons, chains, bonds;
tethers, ropes, restraints
informal cuffs, bracelets
archaic trammels, gyves, darbies, bilboes
1.1A restraint or check on someone’s freedom to act: the fetters of convention
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  • They should be freed from the political fetters and given full freedom to act impartially.


[with object]
1Restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles: (as adjective fettered) a ragged and fettered prisoner
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shackle, manacle, handcuff, clap in irons, put in chains, chain (up), bind, tie (up), tether, rope, hobble;
secure, restrain
informal cuff
rare enfetter, gyve
1.1Confine or restrict (someone): he was not fettered by tradition
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restrict, restrain, constrain, confine, limit;
hinder, hamper, impede, obstruct, handicap, hamstring, encumber, inhibit, check, curb, tie down;
tie someone's hands, cramp someone's style
literary trammel


Old English feter, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veter 'a lace', from an Indo-European root shared by foot.

Palabras que riman con fetter

abetter, begetter, better, bettor, biretta, bruschetta, carburettor (US carburetor), debtor, feta, forgetter, getter, go-getter, Greta, Henrietta, letter, Loretta, mantelletta, operetta, petter, Quetta, setter, sinfonietta, sweater, upsetter, Valletta, vendetta, whetter

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