enfetter

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verb

To bind in fetters

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Meanings

verbenfetter (third-person singular simple present enfetters, present participle enfettering, simple past and past participle enfettered)

present singular third person enfetters · participle present enfettering · participle past enfettered · past enfettered

  1. To bind in fetters
  2. figurativelyTo join, bind, unite

    His soul is so enfettered to her love.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]

Origin

From en- + fetter.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Frenette
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APA

enfetter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enfetter

MLA

“enfetter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enfetter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enfetter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enfetter.

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