Synonyms of pinion

pinion

verb

as in to bind

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains

Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bind
• tie
• chain
• shackle
• lash
• enchain
• fetter
• trammel
• handcuff
• hamper
• confine
• constrain
• truss
• attach
• manacle
• gyve
• bit
• enfetter
• link
• fasten
• iron
• secure
• curb
• hobble
• limit
• restrict
• hinder
• impede
• join
• hog-tie
• tangle
• entangle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loose
• rescue
• free
• release
• liberate
• emancipate
• unfetter
• undo
• unbind
• untie
• unfasten
• disengage
• unshackle
• untangle
• detach

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pinion

To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency. —Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025

Haas thus theorized that the victim had been pinioned by both heels to the front of the upright beam either with their legs splayed open, frog-like, or with their knees bent and turned to one side. —Fredrick Kunkle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023

There is only one substantial object in the show, a set of wooden stocks for pinioning the legs of multiple enslaved people. —Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023