shackle

1. 1.

   bind the arms of

   Synonymspinion

   Broaderrestrain
2. 2.

   restrain with fetters

   Synonymsfetter

   Broaderrestrain

   Narrowermanacle

Other forms of shackle

plural

shackles·

past tense

shackled·

present participle

shackling·

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.

Questions about shackle

What does shackle mean?

shackle means "a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shackle?

shackle has 2 syllables: shac-kle. The stress falls on "shac". In IPA it is /ˈʃækəl/.

What is another word for shackle?

Close synonyms include bond, hamper, trammel, pinion, fetter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shackle a common word?

shackle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shackle?

1 word rhymes with shackle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.