1. to restrict or impede the movement, activity, or free action of

1. something that restricts or impedes free action; a restraint
2. a type of fishing net with three layers
Usage: fishing

Examples

• Excessive regulations trammel business growth.
• The new rules will trammel our ability to respond quickly.
• She refused to let tradition trammel her artistic vision.
• The trammels of bureaucracy slowed the project.
• He broke free from the trammels of his upbringing.
• The fishermen set their trammels at dawn.
• Legal constraints can trammel innovation.
• The artist felt trammeled by commercial demands.