TETHER Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

tether

verb

Definition of tether

as in to tie

to attach (someone or something) to something else by or as if by means of a line or cord I tethered the boat to the dock before coming ashore.

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Recent Examples of tether Becerra, meanwhile, cast himself as an experienced policymaker and his opponent as a lightweight pundit tethered to an unpopular president. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Such passions are with me still, chains tethering me to this fate. — Hisham Matar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for tether

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tether

Verb

The Tampa businessman, during his testimony, tied Sanon to the plot after testifying about their exchanges before and after the assassination.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2026
California surfing legend Kurt Van Dyke’s murder, initially reported as a home invasion in which his girlfriend had been zip-tied, sent shock waves through the surf community earlier this year.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of tie

Verb

Travelers can also strap on ice skates for a turn around Rockefeller Center’s epic rink, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this season.

— Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2026
Friends have babies, partners, limited vacation days, different budgets, or no desire whatsoever to strap on snowshoes in the high Arctic.

— Chloe Frost-Smith, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of strap

Verb

Our job is not to use any melodrama or sentimentality to manipulate or rope the audience into the situation.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026
Local authorities would rope together timber logs for a makeshift bridge, but in the rainy season, the logs would grow slippery and floods would wash them away.

— Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of rope

Verb

Underneath that messaging is a feud between the party’s left flank and centrist arm that’s bound to erupt after Tuesday’s results.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Researchers can tune a network’s structure using this self-adjusting behavior, which limits how many neighbors each particle binds to.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026