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tying upverbor tieing uppresent participle of tie up to create difficulty for the work or activity ofan accident is tying up traffic at 5th and Broadway clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting |