STRAPPED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

strapped

verb

past tense of strap

as in tied

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Rogers Centre is tied for the 10th-highest park factor for home runs (111) since 2025.

— Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Technology has significantly evolved since then, with 80% of 911 calls nationwide coming from wireless mobile devices rather than landlines tied to specific addresses.

— Sophia Eppley, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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The then Duchess of Cambridge took inspiration from the ‘90s and early 2000s in an olive green sweater dress, black tights, boots, and a wide belt cinched at the waist.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 10 Aug. 2026
The waist, for example, was cinched particularly tightly and emphasized in the 1940s and ’50s.

— Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026

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Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.

— Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025

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The first was a low-velocity ground ball threaded up the middle to drive in a run.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Jabbour said an endovascular cerebrospinal fluid shunt, or E-shunt, is threaded into the brain with a catheter that's inserted through the groin.

— Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of threaded

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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

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