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chain someone to something phrasal verb with chainverb[ Tusually+ adv/prep ]uk /tʃeɪn/ us /tʃeɪn/ [ often passive ] to force someone to stay in a particular place doing a particular activity when they do not want to: I don't want a job where I'm chained to a desk for eight hours a day. They complain that the system chains them to their computers, leaving them almost no time to help clients. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Limiting and restricting anti-libertarian armlock boundary box someone out box someone/something in cripplingly crowd curb curtail curtailment keep (herself) to herselfidiom limit limitation limitative limiting suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up uncrippled
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