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tied to

tied to is the simple past and past participle of tie to.

Meaning of tie to

Verb

tie to (third-person singular simple present ties to, present participle tying to, simple past and past participle tied to)

  1. (US, archaic, transitive) To rely on (someone).
    • He's dependable enough that you can always tie to him.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To connect one thing to another; to prove that a connection exists between two things.
    • That evidence ties him to the boathouse at the time of the murder.

Questions about tied to

What is tied to the simple past and past participle of?
Tied to is the simple past and past participle of tie to.

Words near tied to in the dictionary

  1. tied pub
  2. tied pubs
  3. tied someone's hands
  4. tied someone's tubes
  5. tied the knot
  6. tied to
  7. tied up
  8. tied up in knots
  9. tied up loose ends
  10. tied visa
  11. tied visas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tied to (page history and authors); tie to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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