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

One hefty drone, typically used by law enforcement or first responders for security over watch, is tethered and can stay in the air for days at a time. — Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026

During today's excursion, the same two astronauts will venture out into space, tethered to the space station, to install the eighth and final roll-out solar array. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Never in history has a party tethered itself so helplessly to one man, much less such a historically unpopular one. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026

This album is not afraid of its own agonizing lows or tethered to a toe-tapping dance-pop initiative; reveling in this ever-molting freedom, Sivan drops what is easily his finest collection of songs to date. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Carrying one suggested that your business was urgent and your time too valuable to be tethered to a desk. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

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

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