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Synonyms for tied
Synonyms for tied: fastened, trussed and laced. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for tied
Interchangeable with tied, one per sense
Audited under tied's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one tied carries in that sense.
- fastenedadjective, in the sense "fastened with strings or cords"
- trussedadjective, in the sense "bound or secured closely"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name tied as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- lacedlaced is an adjective in the sense "closed with a lace"
The first group is filed under tied's own senses. The second reaches tied from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
fastened with strings or cords
A neatly tied bundle.
The true synonym
fastened
Same sentence, swapped: A neatly fastened bundle.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- level
- laced
- untied
bound or secured closely
The prisoner sat with his hands tied behind his back.
The true synonym
trussed
Same sentence, swapped: The prisoner sat with his hands trussed behind his back.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where tied stands in the sentence above.
- level
- laced
- committed
Where tied turns up in the game
tied is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where tied is the trap
- unitedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cooperative, in the sense "involving the joint activity of two or more", with tied sitting one tile away.
- leveladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unwavering, in the sense "not showing abrupt variations", and tied is on the board beside it.
Play tied
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tied reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tied carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.