fetter
to restrain or restrict freedom of movement or action
Word origin: From Old English feter, a chain for the feet.
Fetter in a sentence
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Excessive regulation can fetter the very innovation it aims to protect.
Overly rigid regulations can fetter the very innovation they were meant to encourage.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “fetter” well
As a verb, fetter means to restrain or hold back, drawing on the image of a chain on the ankle. It is often used figuratively of constraints on freedom or progress.
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