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handcuffedadjective unable to act or achieve one's purposehandcuffed by a dearth of funding, the preservation society can do little but stand by as these historic structures deteriorate hamstrung, helpless, high and dry, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, uselessfeeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong able, capable, competent, effective, efficientauthoritarian, autocratic(also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical(also tyrannic)dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorousimportant, major, significanthigh-level, senior, top to confine or restrain with or as if with chainswanted to take the trip, but was handcuffed by her responsibility to watch her ailing father bound, chained, enchained, enfettered, fettered, gyved, manacled, pinioned, shackled, trammeled(or trammelled) bitted, hobbled, hog-tied, ironed, lashed, secured, tied, trussedattached, fastened, joined, linkedconfined, constrained, curbed, hampered, hindered, impededlimited, restrictedentangled, tangled unbound, unfettered, unshackled emancipated, freed, liberated, loosed, released, rescuedundid, unfastened, untangled, untieddetached, disengaged to create difficulty for the work or activity ofthe fear that the new mandatory, standardized tests will handcuff the state's teachers, who will have to specifically tailor their lesson plans for the test clogged, cramped, embarrassed, encumbered, fettered, hampered, handicapped, held back, held up, hindered, hobbled, hog-tied, impeded, inhibited, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled, short-circuited, stymied, tied up, trammeled(or trammelled) balked, checked, constrained, curbed, reined, restrainedbound, chained, haltered, leashed, tethered, tiedarrested, braked, delayed, retained, retardedbarricaded, blockaded, blocked, roadblockedbogged (down), miredchoked, smothered, stifled, strangled, suffocatedbaffled, foiled, frustrated, stumped, thwartedderailed, disrupted, sabotagedmuzzled, repressed, suppressedconfined, hedged (in), hemmed (in) cramped one's style, gave a hard time aided, assisted, facilitated, helped cleared, made way, opened, unclogged, unplugged, unstoppedfreed, liberated, released, untiedloosened, smoothedencouraged, furthered, promoted |