CHAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chained mean? 

• CHAINED (adjective)
  The adjective CHAINED has 1 sense:

1. bound with chains

  Familiarity information: CHAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bound with chains

Synonyms:

chained; enchained

Context example:

prisoners in chains

Similar:

bound (confined by bonds)

 Context examples 

Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had chained it up again, and however it might tear her within, she subdued it to herself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, but he is chained on the other side of the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was put into a baggage-car by the master, chained in a corner in the midst of heaped trunks and valises.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They were chained to the cabin by the necessity of guarding their prisoner.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Would it not be strange, Die, to be chained for life to a man who regarded one but as a useful tool?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But one of the seamen prevented me, and having informed the captain, I was chained to my cabin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A scared man was the keeper; for, having chained the brute to a stake while he drank a stoup of ale at the inn, it had been baited by stray curs, until, in wrath and madness, it had plucked loose the chain, and smitten or bitten all who came in its path.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her mind was inevitably at liberty; her thoughts could not be chained elsewhere; and the past and the future, on a subject so interesting, must be before her, must force her attention, and engross her memory, her reflection, and her fancy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)