CHAINING Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

chaining

verb

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present participle of chain

as in binding

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains chaining up the dog in the backyard

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as in connecting

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole the prosecutor meticulously and brilliantly chained all the evidence together in his closing argument

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Recent Examples of chaining Men are often the ones in those ICE facilities who are shackling and chaining detainees. —

Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026 Nobody was depriving you of food or water, or chaining you up. —

Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026 One writer, Tiffany Ng, chronicled her experience chaining her phone to the wall for a week. —

Angela Yang, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025 Loomer settled for chaining herself to the company’s New York office. —

Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025 Zeus ultimately punishes Prometheus by chaining him to a rock and sending an eagle to eat his liver every day. —

James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025 The sight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents handcuffing and chaining the wrists, waists and ankles of skilled technicians shocked South Koreans. —

Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025 Despite the fact that not all of its facilities were complete, Natcast had plans to proceed with research by chaining together existing infrastructure around the country. —

IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025 These systems are built with high security standards such as digital signatures, transaction chaining and sequential numbering, all aimed at making sales data immutable and resistant to manipulation. —

Darko Pavic, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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If management was unwilling to accept the latest offer or negotiate based on it, the WGSU suggested that the dispute could be submitted for binding arbitration at the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service or to the American Arbitration Association.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
That binding — along with effects similar to those of opioid drugs such as heroin, fentanyl or oxycodone — has led some experts and politicians to refer to kratom as an opioid.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026