In chains and Kept

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Kept and in chains are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kept" instead an adjective phrase "In chains".

Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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In chains and kept are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "In chains" instead an adjective "Kept".

Seeming more obsessed than truly maternal, she kept the child isolated from all other people, and sometimes kept her in chains.

Source: Morality Pet
After helping start a war with the Tiste Edur for her own amusement, she and her son are defeated, captured and exposed to chaos magic that literally twists her into a hideous snake thing that is kept alive as a demonstration of the King in Chains power.

Source: Literature / Malazan Book of the Fallen
Ward B's inmates are often kept in chains.

Source: Literature / The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

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