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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
manacle is a noun and verb meaning "shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs". It carries 2 recorded senses.
confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs
“The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manacle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.