ENFETTER Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

enfetter

verb

in-ˈfe-tər

Definition of enfetter

as in to bind

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains enfettered by debt, she was in no position to take early retirement

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Egypt and Sudan want binding rules for filling and operating the dam; Ethiopia favors guidelines.

— KHALED KAZZIHA, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
The task of converting it into binding legislation begins now and will be difficult.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of bind

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In this economy, the value of luxury assets like art, watches and fine jewelry is tied to their ability to signal that their owners can afford what others cannot.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Mandarin Oriental, Singapore is running a Creator Pitch Challenge tied to its 40th anniversary, while Bloomr.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tie

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Capturing towns and roads would hamper Tigrayan fighters without necessarily securing the vast rural areas where the rebel forces regrouped during the previous war, Taylor said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Otherwise, the chemicals can react against each other and hamper recyclability, or worse, release harmful byproducts into the environment.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of hamper

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That frees up human operators to focus on big-picture decisions, such as monitoring weather forecasts, running flight simulations for possible paths, and then chaining together a series of navigational waypoints for the smoothest possible journey.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Standing up for carriage drivers cannot mean chaining their futures to a dying trade that risks lives every time a horse panics in traffic.

— Al Sharpton, New York Daily News, 14 Oct. 2026

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