STRAPPED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

strapped

verb

past tense of strap

as in tied

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The game was tied with two outs in the third when Arenado's 22nd home run of the season put the Diamondbacks on top 3-1.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
The Royals quickly tied the game in the bottom of the first inning.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of tied

Verb

For instance, a very slender friend of ours had come to get one more hole punched in her belt by Susie and was now walking around chatting with people, her belt cinched nice and tight.

— Lydia Davis, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
The original Liu cinched waist raincoat has been updated in tonal burgundy, while the Athena style comes in navy blue and black with butter yellow sleeve detailing.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of cinched

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The evacuation area was roughly bounded by Promontory Road to the north, Sunset Boulevard to the south, the 405 Freeway to the east and Bundy Drive to the west.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of bound

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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

Definition of trussed

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On fourth-and-1 at the New England 45-yard line early in the fourth quarter, Lock faked a handoff, booted left and threaded a short pass through the arms of defensive tackle Milton Williams to Smith-Njigba, who took over from there.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Other parts of the collection include a range of apparel in a black, white, and chartreuse palette threaded with a recurring botanical motif.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of threaded

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The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
This wasn’t true, but the core idea was tethered to a real phenomenon.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of tethered

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