Synonyms for tied up
tied up

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1. tied up(p)adjective

   kept occupied or engaged

   "she's tied up at the moment and can't see you"; "the phone was tied up for almost an hour"

   Antonyms:
   idle

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1. Anthony DeStefano:

   I'm not saying the mob can't do anything or can't hurt you, but the big rackets have been sort of tied up by the feds and the police. They don't exist. The big labor racketeering rackets, the big concrete syndicates, the big garment industry rackets don't exist anymore. You have local businesses, like the restaurants, maybe an auto body shop, that could be muscled by the mob. That's where it still works. But the old-time stuff, forget it.

2. Craig Barnes:

   The first video I saw was an Asian girl who was tied up, and I wasn't too sure what was going on — I was a bit perplexed.

3. Harvey Weinstein:

   My s--t is tied up with this man, it’s been a weird f---ing week... I just wanted to make some f---ing movies, that’s it. That’s why I came, that’s why I made ‘Clerks.’ And no f---ing movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, f--k it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really f---ing horrible.

4. Tom Cliff:

   Cotton is intimately associated with land usage, ownership, employment and Han in-migration. It's all tied up.

5. Ali Abu-Freij:

   When we went to the home to see what happened, we were surprised to find the husband tied up and saying that armed men had kidnapped his wife.