pinioned

verb

past tense of pinion
as in bound
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic

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Recent Examples of pinioned 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinioned
  1. bound
  2. tied
  3. handcuffed
Verb
  • Clear blue skies are hovering over the Pharmalot campus, where a cool breeze is wafting by and the official mascots are bounding about the grounds in search of critters.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But previous grids had been tightly bounded—patches of orthogonal civilization within an arcing and twisting terrain.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of bound
Verb
  • Abercrombie’s old mall identity was closely tied to the experience of walking in, making the space itself part of what shoppers remember about the brand.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • With the score tied at one, Bryce Harper misplayed a routine fly ball to right field in the bottom of the 7th, allowing a run to score and setting up another to come in on a sacrifice fly.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of tied
Verb
  • The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning of December 9, 2024, before he is handcuffed, searched and transported to the police station.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Several plastic storage bins were visible in the driveway, and a man was briefly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car before being released.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of handcuffed

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“Pinioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinioned. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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