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tied (root: tie)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tied has 5 senses
- tied(s = adj.all) trussed - bound or secured closely; "the guard was found trussed up with his arms and legs securely tied"; "a trussed chicken"
- tied(s = adj.all) Array - bound together by or as if by a strong rope; especially as by a bond of affection; "people tied by blood or marriage"
- tied(a = adj.all) fastened - fastened with strings or cords; "a neatly tied bundle" Antonym: untied
- tied(a = adj.all) laced - closed with a lace; "snugly laced shoes"
- tied(s = adj.all) even, level - of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tied, adj. Brit.
1 (of a house) occupied subject to the tenant's working for its owner.
2 (of a public house etc.) bound to supply the products of a particular brewery only.
1 (of a house) occupied subject to the tenant's working for its owner.
2 (of a public house etc.) bound to supply the products of a particular brewery only.
THESAURUS
tied
affiliate, affiliated, aground, alike, allied, anchored, assembled, associate, associated, at par, au pair, banded together, beholden, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, bracketed, caught, chained, collateral, collected, commensurate, committed, conjoined, conjugate, connected, copulate, correlated, coupled, drawn, duty-bound, equal, equalized, even, even stephen, fast, fastened, fettered, fifty-fifty, fixed, gathered, grounded, half-and-half, hampered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, handcuffed, held, high and dry, impacted, implicated, in bonds, in chains, in duty bound, in irons, incorporated, indebted to, inextricable, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, ironbound, jammed, joined, knotted, leagued, level, like, linked, manacled, matched, mated, merged, moored, nip and tuck, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, of that ilk, of that kind, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, packed, paired, par, parallel, pledged, proportionate, quits, related, saddled, shackled, spliced, square, stalemated, stranded, strapped, stuck, stuck fast, tethered, tied down, tied up, trammeled, transfixed, twinned, under obligation, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wedded, wedged, yoked
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