Definitions for enchain

enchain en·chain

Spelling: [en-cheyn]
IPA: /ɛnˈtʃeɪn/

Enchain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in enchain (acehinn).

Definitions for enchain

verb (used with object)

  1. to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain:
  2. to hold fast, as the attention.

Origin of enchain

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French enchainer, enchaener. See en-1, chain

Examples for enchain

Letters can enchain hearts; it was by letters that these two found themselves imperceptibly betrothed.

Chemyaka, thus constrained to set the body of his captive free, wished to enchain his soul by the most solemn oaths.

But even his great achievements could not enchain the heart of the capricious empress.

Her life should be one long vigilant device to enchain his being.

Utter weakness gripped his body; but more than this seemed to enchain him.

He knew himself to be grave and quiet; there was nothing about him to enchain her to him.

There still are comforts and pleasures in God's world, but they do not enchain.

It is the desire of my soul that in the future you may enjoy happier days than those which now enchain you to a fatal union.'

A sensation of absolute rest and total indifference seemed to enchain all his faculties.

But the Eskimo was much too experienced a hunter and warrior to allow the drowsy god to enchain him long.

Word Value for enchain
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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