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tie down, v.

restrain from independence by an obligation
<verb.communication>

tie down

"He was tied down by his work"

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semantic pointers

hypernym

secure with or as if with ropes
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

bind tie down tie up truss

"tie down the prisoners"
"tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hyponym

entailment

hypernym