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Chains or shackles used to bind a person or animal
“There was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.”
Something that hinders progress or movement
“Voting should be freed from the trammel of all official interventions.”
A means used or imposed to restrict or control something
The act or state of being confined or imprisoned
Situations that require resolution
Plural for a period of time by which something is late or postponed
Plural for a mechanical instrument used to trace out an ellipse
To restrain with chains or manacles
“That horror in turn serves as a symbol of the chains that trammel the spirit.”
To catch or ensnare in a trap
“We must not trammel the soul with formalities, or lay snares for our own conscience.”
To block or seal off a place, such as with a barrier
“The grid manifests our propensity to trammel the land, to project onto it human desire and total mental control.”
To hamper or impede the movement or progress of
“Satirists spare no keen-pointed shafts of ridicule to level at the mists of ignorance, bigotry and tyranny that trammel the progress of higher knowledge.”
To imprison, confine or incarcerate someone
To load, or be loaded, heavily with
To catch, or became caught, with a trap
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