Synonyms for tie down
tie down

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1. tie down, tie up, bind, trussverb

   secure with or as if with ropes

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

   Synonyms:
   stick, hold fast, constipate, obligate, attach, truss, tie, bind off, tie up, stick to, hold, moor, bind, bandage, oblige, adhere, berth, bond

2. tie downverb

   restrain from independence by an obligation

   "He was tied down by his work"

   Synonyms:
   bind, truss, tie up

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1. • Oblige
   • Restrain

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1. tie down

   Synonyms:
   fasten down

2. tie down

   Synonyms:
   restrain, confine

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1. Kevin McConway:

   One thing this research clearly demonstrates is how difficult it is to tie down whether something like this is indeed a risk factor for cancer. Despite this being a good, competent, careful study involving over quarter of a million women, it still leaves room for doubt about the association, if there is one, between using powder in the genital area and ovarian cancer, there is still uncertainty about whether any such association exists. If it does exist, there is uncertainty about whether the powder itself is what causes any increase in cancer risk. And there's also uncertainty about what the size of the risk increase is, if it there is one.

2. Sergei Rudskoy:

   The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of the blockaded Ukrainian cities, these actions are carried out with the aim of causing such damage to military infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the results of which allow us not only to tie down their forces and prevent them from strengthening their grouping in the Donbas, but also will not allow them to do this until the Russian army completely liberates the territories of the DPR and LNR.

3. Ethiopian Proverb:

   When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.