Usually means: Restricting freedom through physical constraints.
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  1. fettering: Merriam-Webster
  2. fettering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fettering: Vocabulary.com
  4. fettering: Wordnik
  5. fettering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fettering: Wiktionary
  7. Fettering, fettering: Dictionary.com
  8. fettering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. fettering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fettering: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fettering)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is fettered or constricted.

Similar:
shackle, hobble, fetterer, constraining, chain, garnish, barring, confiner, ligature, clinker, more...

Opposite:
liberating, unrestraining, unshackling, freeing, emancipating

Types:
shackle, manacle, chain, bondage, confinement, more...

Adjectives:
hideous, original, such, certain, double, legal

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Similar:
shackle, hobble, fetterer, constraining, chain, garnish, barring, confiner, ligature, clinker, more...

Opposite:
liberating, unrestraining, unshackling, freeing, emancipating

Types:
shackle, manacle, chain, bondage, confinement, more...

Adjectives:
hideous, original, such, certain, double, legal



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