trammel
verb [often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they trammel | |
| he / she / it trammels | |
| past simple trammelled | |
| past participle trammelled | |
| (US English) past simple trammeled | |
| (US English) past participle trammeled | |
| -ing form trammelling | |
| (US English) -ing form trammeling |
- trammel somebody/something
to limit somebody’s freedom of movement or activity 限制，束缚，阻碍（某人的活动自由） He felt himself trammelled by convention. 他觉得自己被传统束缚住了。
Word Originlate Middle English (originally referring to a type of net used for fishing): from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- ‘three’ + macula ‘mesh’.