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tiesnounpl. of tie 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 bonds, cements, cords, knots, ligatures, links attachments, connections, fastenings, hookups, joints, linkages, linkups, nexuses(or nexus), tie-ups, unions, yokesaffections, sympathiesfetters, handcuffs, manacles, shackles, trammelsconstraints, curbs, limitations, limits, restraints, restrictions partings, separationsemancipations, freedoms, liberations, releases tiesverbpresent tense third-person singular of tieto gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cordtied the newspapers into a bundle bands, binds, trusses cinches, cords, ropes, straps, threads, wiresgirds, girtslashes, leashes, tethersinterlaces, intertwines, interweaves, lacesentangles, knots, snarls, tangles, twistscoils, winds unbinds, unties undoes, unfastens, unlaces, unlashes, unloosens, unlooses, unstraps, unstrings, unthreadsunleashes, untethersdisentangles, unravels, unsnarls, untangles, untwines, untwistsuncoils, unspools, unwinds 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? equals, matches, meets beats, betters, eclipses, excels, outdistances, outdoes, outshines, outstrips, overtops, surpasses, tops, transcendsamounts (to), approaches, touchesapproximates, keeps up, measures up (to), parallels, rivals, stacks up (against or with) |