1. Restrained or bound, especially with chains or shackles
   "the fettered prisoner could barely move";
   - shackled
    
2. Restricted or constrained
   "He felt fettered by social conventions"

1. Restrain with fetters
   "The prisoners were fettered before transport";
   - shackle, enfetter
    
2. [literary] Be a hindrance or obstacle to
   "She is fettering the progress of our project";
   - impede, hinder, trammel [literary], entrammel [literary]

See also: bound

Type of: confine, constrain, hold, keep, prevent, restrain

Encyclopedia: Fettered