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tied-upadjective involved in often constant activitywe'll be tied-up with work for the next several days active, assiduous, bustling, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, hopping, industrious, laborious, occupied, sedulous, working knee-deep, swampedanimated, astir, buzzing, flourishing, happening, humming, lively, thriving, vibrantabsorbed, concentrating, engrossed, focused(also focussed), immersed, intent, preoccupiedalive, functional, functioning, going, living, operating, operational, operative, runningenergetic, vigoroushardworkingindefatigable, tireless, untiring idle, inactive, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied freeasleep, dormant, latent, lifeless, quiescent, sleepyinert, passivedead, dull, slowinoperative, nonoperating to create difficulty for the work or activity ofan accident is tying up traffic at 5th and Broadway clogged, cramped, embarrassed, encumbered, fettered, hampered, handcuffed, handicapped, held back, held up, hindered, hobbled, hog-tied, impeded, inhibited, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled, short-circuited, stymied, 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 |