All enchain synonyms

verb enchain

• truss — to tie, bind, or fasten.
• yoke — a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
• hook up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
• pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
• put together — assemble
• coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
• deprive — If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
• disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
• dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• immure — to enclose within walls.
• indenture — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• subject — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
• shut in — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
• involve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
• mix up — an act or instance of mixing.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• embarrass — Cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
• embroil — Involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
• implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
• intertwine — Twist or twine together.
• interweave — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.