chained
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4.1
- adjective
- /tʃeɪnd/
- You could be chained with a metallic chain around your ankle to a tree.
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Watch on YouTubeWhen they take you to shower, your chained, your chained up, your leg ironed.
- When they take you to shower, your chained, your chained up, your leg ironed.
- It honestly looked like in a way the assistant was was just like chained to this narcissistic boss.
- I'm chained to my content and I love my content, fortunately, and I love the people I'm around.
- And this time it was cuffs behind the back, chained around the waist, chain connected to the ankles, one chain going down the waist, ankles down to the legs.
- In fact, Heidegger wants us chained to our attention, chained to our boredom.
- And when she goes into the basement, it is one of her childhood friends chained up in the basement.
- And what they find in that cell is a child who is chained up there and will never be able to to escape.
- Not effectively chained free and wild, no more yours than they were you.
Examples
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The old car was chained to the fence to prevent it from being stolen.
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During the inspection, the dogs were chained to their kennels for safety.
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In some countries, people with mental health conditions are sent to faith healers, where they could end up chained for years.
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If I were only a little green parrot and not your baby, mother, dear, would you keep me chained lest I should fly away?
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You have some prisoners and they're chained in this cave and there's a fire somewhere, and all that they can see is their own shadows against a wall.
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In the dark cell, the prisoner felt chained to his past mistakes.
Synonyms
136
1.0
Fastened with string or rope
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4.2
Tied or fastened to stop movement
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6.3
A person who has metal bands on the hands or feet so they cannot move
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5.1
Held by a rope or chain so it cannot move far
21
4.4
Tied to something by a rope so you cannot move away, like a post or a dock
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7.0
Held by chains around the ankles so the person cannot move freely
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1.3
Kept closed so it does not open or move
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8.1
Tied tightly with rope or string so arms and legs cannot move
2
8.1
Held by chains or ties so someone cannot move and cannot act freely
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9.7
A person or animal held tightly with the arms tied behind the back
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9.1
Held with chains or by rules that stop you from acting
Antonyms
How Restrained
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chained comes from chain, which goes back to the old Latin word catena, meaning 'a line of linked rings'. So something chained is 'bound' or held by those linked rings to stop it from moving.