fetter / ˈfɛt ər /

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fetter2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
  2. Usually fetters. anything that confines or restrains: Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to put fetters upon.
  2. to confine; restrain.

fetter 近义词

v. 动词 verb

tie up, hold

更多fetter例句

  1. I wonder how it comes,” he asked, “that all these strangers are so quick afoot, and we must drag about our fetter?
  2. He was a grave lad; he had no mind to dance himself; he wore his fetter manfully, and tended his ulcer without complaint.
  3. He thought to leave the fetter where it lay, but when he turned to go, his mind was otherwise.
  4. When politics possess the soul, they fetter it with contemptible pride, paltry ambitions.
  5. Taking this fetter to the wolf, they bade him try his strength on it.