0 past simple and past participle of shackle
1 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do:
In other words, the end-user's research is shackled by the owner of the upstream research tool.
If woman loses her self-understanding she will become shackled to a civilisation in crisis, transformed into a body, part of decadent femininity.
This would avert the danger of becoming shackled to a single architect.
The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism.
Experimental social games in which subjects are not allowed to speak to one another are a bit like sports competitions where subjects must compete with their legs shackled together.
Broadly speaking, the opera is less shackled by convention than often assumed: its manipulation of the tradition that feeds it is, on every level, radically novel.
Perhaps because in the high noon of modernity, that past, uncontaminated by modernity, allows a freer space for imagining a future less shackled by the present.
But we are not shackled to experience; we must even separate ourselves from it in order to attain or to reconstruct the "grammar" of this confused multimessage.
