tie down

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tie down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tie down
      v 1: secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners";
           "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling
           shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss]
      2: restrain from independence by an obligation; "He was tied
         down by his work"