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: --
Labour has been shackled, and property has been left free.
If the cars are shackled there will be diplomatic incidents and fines will not be paid to the police funds.
They all face international competition and are all shackled by overvaluation.
These are the people of whom we are primarily thinking—these helpless and inarticulate masses, poverty-stricken and shackled and bound by ancient religious and social observances.
That is the seed of future disaster, particularly when we are shackled with overvalued currency.
He now appears as the great man who is driving forward in sweeping away the slums which have shackled our life for so long.
We say this with some trepidation because academic researchers require the freedom to do research for its own sake-and they should not be shackled by real world concerns.
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.
