Betydelse av shackle på svenska

• 0 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do:

  • The country is shackled by its own debts.

• 1 one of a pair of metal rings connected by a chain and fastened to a person’s wrists or the bottoms of the legs to prevent the person from escaping:

  • The prisoner was led away in shackles.

• 2 to put shackles on someone to prevent an escape:

  • The convicts were shackled and led onto the bus.

  • fig. She was no longer shackled by her memories (= they did not prevent her from doing what she wanted to do).