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shackle v

(transitive) To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles. To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun sense 1.1.1, sense 1.1.2, etc.). To provide (something) with a shackle. (figurative) To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual. (chemistry, obsolete) To combine (a substance) with another substance. (intransitive, reflexive) Of two things: to connect or couple together. [...] Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger read out General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, stating that all previously enslaved people in Texas were now free.

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