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v. - Restrain or bind with chains.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Verb (used with object) : to be enchained by ignorance and superstition
  • 'enchain' a rational conversation, but nothing could I get out of him but rhapsodies about you in the frightfullest English that I ever heard out of a human head!
  • For the middle class pleasures where they would enchain you,
  • Throw off the earthly fetters which enchain, thee, O my love, and follow me!
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