ENCHAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enchain mean? 

• ENCHAIN (verb)
  The verb ENCHAIN has 1 sense:

1. restrain or bind with chains

  Familiarity information: ENCHAIN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCHAIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enchain    ... he / she / it enchains   
Past simple: enchained   
Past participle: enchained   
-ing form: enchaining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restrain or bind with chains

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "enchain" is one way to...):

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They want to enchain the prisoners

 Context examples 

As I think of them going up and down before those schoolroom windows—the Doctor reading with his complacent smile, an occasional flourish of the manuscript, or grave motion of his head; and Mr. Dick listening, enchained by interest, with his poor wits calmly wandering God knows where, upon the wings of hard words—I think of it as one of the pleasantest things, in a quiet way, that I have ever seen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)