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TIE DOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tie down mean?
• TIE DOWN (verb)
The verb TIE DOWN has 2 senses:
1. secure with or as if with ropes
2. restrain from independence by an obligation
Familiarity information: TIE DOWN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Secure with or as if with ropes
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
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
Sense 2
Meaning:
Restrain from independence by an obligation
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
He was tied down by his work
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
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