tie down definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A person or thing that ties you down restricts your freedom in some way. We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down... The reason he didn't have a family was that he didn't want to be tied down. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Fasten down. 2. Restrain, confine, hinder from action, shackle, restrict, hamper.