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(Entry 1 of 2)
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
- prosecutors were hog-tied as the convicted felon was freed on a technicality
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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hog-tied
verb
past tense of hog-tie
Synonyms & Antonyms of hog-tied (Entry 2 of 2)
to create difficulty for the work or activity of
- their principals' inflexible demands virtually hog-tied the diplomats' efforts to negotiate a peace treaty
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