Definition of entrammel in English:
entrammel
verbentrammeled, entrammels, entrammelling, entrammelled, entrammelingɪnˈtram(ə)lɛnˈtram(ə)l
[with object]literary Entangle; trap.
〈诗/文〉束缚；限制
she had entrammelled herself in terrible evil bonds
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus, like Oedipus, Augustus, as the seeming outsider, is able to fathom the entrammeling web of the double curse which ‘lies over the land,’ and cut boldly through its snares.
- Such novelistic fragments not only portray recognizable figures of lovers' thought but vividly display mechanisms of signification and their entrammelling complications.
- As you get entrammelled in family life he reckons it's difficult to make, and keep, good buddies wherever you are.
Rhymes
camel, enamel, mammal, trammel