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hog-tiedadjective unable to act or achieve one's purposeprosecutors were hog-tied as the convicted felon was freed on a technicality hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, high and dry, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, uselessfeeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong able, capable, competent, effective, efficientauthoritarian, autocratic(also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical(also tyrannic)dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorousimportant, major, significanthigh-level, senior, top to create difficulty for the work or activity oftheir principals' inflexible demands virtually hog-tied the diplomats' efforts to negotiate a peace treaty clogged, cramped, embarrassed, encumbered, fettered, hampered, handcuffed, handicapped, held back, held up, hindered, hobbled, impeded, inhibited, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled, short-circuited, stymied, tied up, trammeled(or trammelled) balked, checked, constrained, curbed, reined, restrainedbound, chained, haltered, leashed, tethered, tiedarrested, braked, delayed, retained, retardedbarricaded, blockaded, blocked, roadblockedbogged (down), miredchoked, smothered, stifled, strangled, suffocatedbaffled, foiled, frustrated, stumped, thwartedderailed, disrupted, sabotagedmuzzled, repressed, suppressedconfined, hedged (in), hemmed (in) cramped one's style, gave a hard time aided, assisted, facilitated, helped cleared, made way, opened, unclogged, unplugged, unstoppedfreed, liberated, released, untiedloosened, smoothedencouraged, furthered, promoted |