Dictionary entry details
• TIE UP (verb)
Meaning:
Secure with or as if with ropes
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
tie down; tie up; truss; bind
Context examples:
tie down the prisoners / tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
Hypernyms (to "tie up" is one way to...):
confine; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement)
"Tie up" entails doing...:
fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tie up"):
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 feet)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to tie up the prisoners
Meaning:
Invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
All my money is tied up in long-term investments
Hypernyms (to "tie up" is one way to...):
commit; invest; place; put (make an investment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Restrain from moving or operating normally
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred
Hypernyms (to "tie up" is one way to...):
block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Secure in or as if in a berth or dock
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
moor; berth; tie up
Context example:
tie up the boat
Hypernyms (to "tie up" is one way to...):
fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tie up"):
wharf (moor at a wharf)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Finish the last row
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
bind off; tie up
Hypernyms (to "tie up" is one way to...):
bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)
Domain category:
knit; knitting; knitwork (needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
