tether

Speech parts

1. tether - Noun

2. tether - Verb

Meaning

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hobble chain secure connect tie bind stake anchor attach restrain confine leash fasten moor rivet
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Antonyms

detach disengage loosen untie unfasten unbutton
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Hypernyms

attach restraint constraint

Hyponyms

painter

Phrases with the word

at the end of one's tether at the end of your tether tether an animal

Derivatives

tethered tethering

Anagrams

Threet

Examples

Nae man can tether time or tide. Robert Burns

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. Umberto Guidoni

This business can be very erratic and intense ... You can be the subject of great attention, both positive and negative. You really do have to tether yourself when you're a teen star. If you don't have that tether, then you're really lost. Claire Danes

If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded. H. G. Wells

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality. Jason Bateman

Only when the tree is big and strong can you tether a cow to it. Liberia Proverb

Close letter words and terms

teterrimous Teters teth tether an animal tetherable tetherball