UNTIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untied mean? 

• UNTIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNTIED has 3 senses:

1. not tied

2. with laces not tied

3. not bound by shackles and chains

  Familiarity information: UNTIED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not tied

Synonyms:

unfastened; untied

Antonym:

tied (fastened with strings or cords)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With laces not tied

Synonyms:

unlaced; untied

Context example:

teenagers slopping around in unlaced sneakers

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not bound by shackles and chains

Synonyms:

unchained; unfettered; unshackled; untied

Similar:

unbound (not restrained or tied down by bonds)

 Context examples 

They sat me down in a chair, untied my neck-cloth, and brought me some water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He would stand up, with open eyes, and he would struggle and toil and learn until, with eyes unblinded and tongue untied, he could share with her his visioned wealth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In an instant I had caught him round the waist, and held him up while Holmes and Pycroft untied the elastic bands which had disappeared between the livid creases of skin.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another night; and in the morning, being more rational, he untied the leather string that fastened the squat moose-hide sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire—making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)