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noun
1.
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
2.
Usually, fetters. anything that confines or restrains: Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination.
verb (used with object)
3.
to put fetters upon.
4.
to confine; restrain.
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Fetters
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English feter; cognate with Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fjǫturr; akin to foot
before 900; Middle English, Old English feter; cognate with Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fjǫturr; akin to foot
Related forms
fet·ter·er, noun
fet·ter·less, adjective
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Example Sentences
- Especially is this so because though he breaks his fetters in many places he never escapes from them.
- Other rich countries impose far fewer fetters than the land of the free.
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Word Origin & History
fetter
O.E. feter "chain or shackle for the feet," from P.Gmc. *fetero (cf. Du. veter, O.H.G. fezzera, O.N. fioturr), from PIE root *ped- "foot" (see foot). The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in O.E. The verb is first recorded c.1300. Related: Fettered; fetters.
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