STRAPPED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

strapped

verb

past tense of strap

as in tied

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Citizen Bank Park’s 116 park factor for home runs since 2025 ranks tied for fourth.

— Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator later determined the newborn died by homicide, finding that the child died from entrapment after being placed and tied inside a plastic trash bag beneath bloody paper towels and other garbage.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of tied

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Embracing a minimalist aesthetic, Brinkley arrived in a $2,000 cotton-and-silk shirt dress cinched at the waist with a tonal belt that hung down past her knees.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 25 July 2026
The waist, for example, was cinched particularly tightly and emphasized in the 1940s and ’50s.

— Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026

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Near where the Loch empties into the Harlem Meer, a long-haired child, unaccompanied by an adult, bounded along the bank with a fly rod.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The area, which centers on Duvan Drive, is bounded by Harlem Avenue to the east, Metra Rock Island railroad to the south and 175th Street to the north.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

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Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.

— Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025

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What unites them is the method, in which small pieces of marinated protein are threaded onto skewers and grilled over hot charcoal, where the smoke and intense heat create deeply flavorful, succulent, crispy bites.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Hernández went 0-for-2 with a sacrifice fly, demonstrated zone awareness while drawing two walks, and made the play of the night, ranging far into foul ground after gloving a ground ball that threaded the chalk line.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of threaded

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Scientists tethered a fly (Drosophila) in place over a small ball floating on a cushion of air in complete darkness.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026
Weakened by kidney failure, Karam is unable to work and is tethered 12 hours a day to the machine that cleans the toxins from his blood.

— Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of tethered

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