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CHAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bound with chains
Example:
prisoners in chains
Synonyms:
chained; enchained
Classified under:
Similar:
bound (confined by bonds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb chain
Context examples:
While she talked of his son, Mr. Weston's attention was chained; but when she got to Maple Grove, he could recollect that there were ladies just arriving to be attended to, and with happy smiles must hurry away.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I had a persuasion that I should be supposed mad, and this in itself would for ever have chained my tongue.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He was kept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith teased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A wreath of blue smoke floated up through a hole in the thatch, and was the only sign of life in the place, save a great black hound which lay sleeping chained to the door-post.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The dog-musher secured a club and went over to the chained animal.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
