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beshackled

beshackled is the simple past and past participle of beshackle.

Meaning of beshackle

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

Questions about beshackled

What is beshackled the simple past and past participle of?
Beshackled is the simple past and past participle of beshackle.

Words near beshackled in the dictionary

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

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