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Tie up   /taɪ əp/   Listen
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Tie  v. t.  (past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying)  
1.
To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck."
2.
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument."
3.
To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. "In bond of virtuous love together tied."
4.
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. "Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind."
5.
(Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
6.
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
To ride and tie. See under Ride.
To tie down.
(a)
To fasten so as to prevent from rising.
(b)
To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.
To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.





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"Tie up" Quotes from Famous Books



... if you keep on as you've started. But see here, Uncle Jimmy, while I ain't got any wonderful deal of my own for you to put your money in, I might throw out a useful hint or two as to other folk's plans. Suppose you just take my card, and before you tie up with any accommodatin' financiers drop in at the studio, and talk ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... life is a steamboat that stops to take on passengers at every landing. Bettie's are one of them kind, and she'll tie up with 'em all in glory when the time comes," remarked Mother Mayberry as she watched the sturdy widow swing away down the Road with the baby ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... was in earnest, and, taking hold of the arrow again, gave it a mighty wrench. It came out, but the barbs of the arrow tore the flesh badly. Houston, however, paused only to tie up the wound roughly, and hurried back into the fight, though Jackson ordered him to the rear. Before long, two bullets struck him down, and he lay between life ...
— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson
... tie up people's mouths, and you ought to be glad that they haven't anything worse to say about you," answered ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... seventh day of May, 1920, fail to keep a certain tin receptacle used for swill or garbage, in shape and form a barrel, within the building occupied and owned by you until proper time for its removal and failed to securely bundle, tie up and pack the newspapers and other light refuse and rubbish contained therein, and, further, that you caused and permitted certain tin receptacles, in the shape and form of barrels, containing such swill or garbage, to be filled to a greater ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train


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