Synonyms:
fettered, shackled
Meaning: bound by chains fastened around the ankles
Usage examples
Is life not hard and sorrowful enough without being fettered with yet another yoke?
Had he been now a free man--free from those chains with which he had fettered himself at Stratton--he would again have asked this woman for her love, in spite of her past treachery; but it would have been for her love, and not for her money, that he would have sought her.