Thesaurus
hog-tied
Synonyms and Antonyms of hog-tied
- prosecutors were hog-tied as the convicted felon was freed on a technicality
able, capable, competent, effective, efficient
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic)
dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorous
Synonyms and Antonyms of hog-tied
- their principals' inflexible demands virtually hog-tied the diplomats' efforts to negotiate a peace treaty
balked, checked, constrained, curbed, reined, restrained
bound, chained, haltered, leashed, tethered, tied
arrested, braked, delayed, retained, retarded
barricaded, blockaded, blocked, roadblocked
choked, smothered, stifled, strangled, suffocated
baffled, foiled, frustrated, stumped, thwarted
derailed, disrupted, sabotaged
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