tie up

Definition

To secure with rope, string, etc.

Example Sentences

• "Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake."
• "The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault."
• "At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook."

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