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UK
/mˈænəkəl/
]
VERB
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confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs
The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime
NOUN
- shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs
How To Use manacle In A Sentence
- As I watched him, he groaned and tried to raise his hands to his face; the chain from his wrist to his ankle manacles stopped him.
- Inside the cages, the prisoners remain manacled.
- Their faces are hidden, they are wearing tall hats and are manacled and humiliated.
- It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
- Nishad says we are living in the manacles of neoteric technology
- The manacle around my neck tugged on my skin, lacerating my raw flesh.
- Though not fully recovered, he was propped up long enough to shoot the Mexican Chair bit, then flown to Kansas for integral scenes in which he was manacled to Gustaf Hammarsten as they made their way through a hotel and a mall. Sacha Baron Cohen on “Brüno”: “I won’t do it again.” Here’s why: » Scene-Stealers
- We have the entire Australian team manacled in the SCG dressing room and if they manage to explain themselves we will feed them their first bread and water in a few days. The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns
- In November 1943 she was sent to Germany in manacles.
- I sensed that if his hands were manacled, it would destroy the fluency of his speech.