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TIE DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restrain from independence by an obligation

Example:

He was tied down by his work

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "tie down" is one way to...):

bind; hold; obligate; oblige (bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Secure with or as if with ropes

Example:

tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed

Synonyms:

bind; tie down; tie up; truss

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "tie down" is one way to...):

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

"Tie down" entails doing...:

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tie down"):

chain up (tie up with chains)

faggot; faggot up; fagot (bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot)

faggot; fagot (fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them)

hog-tie (tie together somebody's limbs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to tie down the prisoners

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