enfetter

English

Etymology

en- + fetter

Verb

enfetter (third-person singular simple present enfetters, present participle enfettering, simple past and past participle enfettered)

  1. To bind in fetters; to enchain.
    • William Shakespeare
      His soul is so enfettered to her love.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enfetter in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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