STRAPPED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

strapped

verb

past tense of strap

as in tied

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Allisha Gray tied her career high with 32 points to lead all scorers, while Angel Reese finished with another double-double, scoring 15 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

— Micahya Costen, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The MacBook Neo is inextricably tied to the iPhone Pro's release date.

— Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026

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The then Duchess of Cambridge took inspiration from the ‘90s and early 2000s in an olive green sweater dress, black tights, boots, and a wide belt cinched at the waist.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 10 Aug. 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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With the sprightly energy of a schoolboy, Jean-Paul Doron bounds into an empty creek, his red suede shoes scraping pale rocks.

— Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
East Portal Park was busy on Monday morning, with children bounding through the playground and the soft clunking of bocce balls echoing from the nearby courts.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 10 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

Definition of trussed

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The first was a low-velocity ground ball threaded up the middle to drive in a run.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Jabbour said an endovascular cerebrospinal fluid shunt, or E-shunt, is threaded into the brain with a catheter that's inserted through the groin.

— Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of threaded

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The financing packages will keep a huge amount of capital tethered to Nvidia, and away from fledgling or established competitors.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026
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

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