Trammels Synonyms and Antonyms

To gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. webs
  2. traps
  3. tangles
  4. snares
  5. entraps
  6. ensnares
  7. enmeshes
  8. catches
A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hampers
  2. limits
  3. curbs
  4. cramps
  5. strictures
  6. restrictions
  7. bonds
  8. restraints
  9. limitations
  10. inhibitions
  11. constraints
  12. shackles
  13. checks

Trammels Sentence Examples

  • He soon succeeded in removing the trammels imposed upon his authority, and made himself king in everything but name.

  • While this sceptical thesis was embraced by philosophers who had lost their interest in religion, the spiritually minded sought their satisfaction more and more in a mysticism which frequently cast itself loose from ecclesiastical trammels.

  • Further, it discusses, as Hort observes, certain indestructible problems which much early Christian theology passes by or deals with rather perfunctorily; and it does so with a freshness and reality which, as we compare the original 3rd-century basis with the conventional manner of the Epitome, we see to be not unconnected with origin in an age as yet free from the trammels of formal orthodoxy.

  • Philosophy had attempted to free itself from the trammels of theological orthodoxy in the hardy speculations of some schoolmen, notably of Scotus Erigena and Abelard.

  • But the moral philosophy of the 18th century, freed from scholastic trammels, was a genuine native product, arising out of the real problem of conduct and reaching its conclusions, at least ostensibly, by an analysis of, and an appeal to, the facts of conduct and the nature of morality.

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