strapped

verb

past tense of strap
as in tied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strapped
  1. tied
  2. cinched
  3. bound
  4. trussed
  5. threaded
  6. tethered
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  • Rogers Centre is tied for the 10th-highest park factor for home runs (111) since 2025.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Technology has significantly evolved since then, with 80% of 911 calls nationwide coming from wireless mobile devices rather than landlines tied to specific addresses.
    — Sophia Eppley, AJC.com, 10 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
Definition of cinched
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  • Perhaps most importantly, the brothers had an indisputable chemistry, both in the studio and bounding around racks of equipment on stage.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, after some slight weakness, the stock steadied, and then bounded up 6% higher.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 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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  • Earlier, during 7-on-7 in the red zone, Mahomes threaded a perfect pass just inside the back-left pylon to Thornton, who couldn’t reel it in.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Angel City rookie Taylor Suarez opened the scoring less than 15 minutes into the match when Carina Lageyre threaded a pass to the center of the box and Suarez finished past goalkeeper Marisa Jordan for her first NWSL goal.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 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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