Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/June 19

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Word of the day
for June 19
shackle v
  1. (transitive)
    1. To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
    2. To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun sense 1.1.1, sense 1.1.2, etc.).
    3. To provide (something) with a shackle.
    4. (figurative)
      1. To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
      2. (chemistry, obsolete) To combine (a substance) with another substance.
  2. (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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