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beshackle

UK/biˈʃækl̩/US/biˈʃæk(ə)l/

beshackle verb: to shackle.

Verb

beshackle (third-person singular simple present beshackles, present participle beshackling, simple past and past participle beshackled)

  1. (archaic, transitive, uncommon) To shackle.
    • Who this king ſhould bee, beſhackled theyr wits,and layd them a dry ground euery one.1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] N.L.; C. B., page 50
    • Shall guilded Chains beſhackle you with Fears ?1704, “An Ironical Encomium on the unparallel'd Proceedings of the Incomparable Couple of Whiggiſh Walloons”, in Poems on Affairs of State, from 1640, to This Present Year 1704, volume III, pages...

Forms of beshackle

third-person singular presentbeshackles
present participlebeshackling
past participlebeshackled
pastbeshackled

Origin of beshackle

From be- + shackle.

Words that rhyme with beshackle

Questions about beshackle

What does beshackle mean?
Beshackle means to shackle.
What part of speech is beshackle?
Beshackle is a verb.
How do you pronounce beshackle?
Beshackle is pronounced /biˈʃækl̩/ (UK).
What is the past tense of beshackle?
The past tense of beshackle is beshackled.

Words near beshackle in the dictionary

  1. besettings
  2. besew
  3. besews
  4. BESEX
  5. Besford
  6. beshackle
  7. beshackled
  8. beshackles
  9. beshackling
  10. beshade
  11. beshades

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