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handcuffingverbpresent participle of handcuff 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 binding, chaining, enchaining, enfettering, fettering, gyving, manacling, pinioning, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling) bitting, hobbling, hog-tying, ironing, lashing, securing, trussing, tying(or tieing)attaching, fastening, joining, linkingconfining, constraining, curbing, hampering, hindering, impedinglimiting, restrictingentangling, tangling unbinding, unfettering, unshackling emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosing, releasing, rescuingundoing, unfastening, untangling, untying(or untieing)detaching, disengaging 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 clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting |