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Word entry · 6 letters

fetter

Best crossword clue

"Restrain with chains"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfet.ə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eefrttStarts with FEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. restrain with fetters

Word origin

From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot.

Used in a sentence

  • Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
  • He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
  • That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …

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