fetter

fetter is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
2. noun. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
3. present participle. To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
4. present participle. To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
5. noun. a shackle for the ankles or feet

   Synonyms: hobble

6. verb. restrain with fetters

   Synonyms: shackle

Synonyms

hobble, shackle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fetter:

frette

Common word forms

fetters, fettered, fetterer, fettering, fetterless

Words from these letters

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