handcuff

🇺🇸 /ˈhændkʌf/ 🇬🇧 /ˈhændkʌf/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP10000
verb
R

To secure someone's wrists together with a device called handcuffs, often used by police to restrain a person.

The suspect was handcuffed by the police officer after being arrested.

translation

v. To secure someone's wrists together with a device called handcuffs, often used by police to restrain a person.

Word Forms

3rd Present handcuffs
Past handcuffed
Perfect handcuffed
Progressive handcuffing