Synonyms of tethered

tethered

verb

past tense of tether

as in tied

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.

Related Words

• tied
• strapped
• bound
• lashed
• wired
• leashed
• trussed
• roped
• corded
• banded
• threaded
• cinched
• intertwined
• knotted
• tangled
• coiled
• girded
• entangled
• snarled
• interlaced
• girted
• laced
• twisted
• wound
• interwove

Dissimilar Words

• unleashed
• untied
• unbound
• untethered
• unfastened
• unloosed
• unstrapped
• unlaced
• disentangled
• undid
• unraveled
• untangled
• uncoiled
• untwisted
• unwound
• unlashed
• unloosened
• unthreaded
• unstrung
• untwined
• unsnarled
• unspooled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tethered

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

Meir will be stationed in Canada's 56-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, while Adenot will be tethered to the space station. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

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

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

Samsung's glasses are equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen1 chip and must be tethered to a smartphone. — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 22 July 2026

Once Emily commits to stepping away from what tethered her to her past, a new freedom, and maybe new fears, emerge. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 July 2026