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tienoun a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the otherthe competition for first place in the dessert division ended in a tie between the chocolate pecan pie and the walnut fudge tart a uniting or binding force or influencetheir marriage will serve to form a very strong tie between our families bond, cement, cord, knot, ligature, link attachment, connection, fastening, hookup, joint, linkage, linkup, nexus, tie-up, union, yokeaffection, fondness, sympathyfetter, handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammelconstraint, curb, hampering, limit, limitation, restraint, restriction detaching, disengaging, parting, separationunbinding, unfastening, unfettering, untying(or untieing)emancipation, freedom, liberation, release tieverbto gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cordtied the newspapers into a bundle band, bind, truss cinch, cord, rope, strap, thread, wiregird, girtlash, leash, tetherinterlace, intertwine, interweave, laceentangle, knot, snarl, tangle, twistcoil, wind unbind, untie undo, unfasten, unlace, unlash, unloose, unloosen, unstrap, unstring, unthreadunleash, untetherdisentangle, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, untwine, untwistuncoil, unspool, unwind to produce something equal to (as in quality or value)at the class reunion we learned that he had won the Nobel Prize in medicine—how could the rest of us tie that? equal, match, meet beat, better, eclipse, excel, outdistance, outdo, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcendamount (to), approach, touchapproximate, keep up, measure up (to), parallel, rival, stack up (against or with) before the 12th century |