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synonyms for tethered

  • barred
  • blocked
  • closed
  • confined
  • controlled
  • defined
  • deprived
  • prescribed
  • reduced
  • restrained
  • secured
  • shortened
  • bound
  • bounded
  • bridled
  • chained
  • checked
  • clogged
  • cramped
  • curbed
  • decreased
  • deterred
  • diminished
  • encircled
  • fastened
  • fettered
  • foiled
  • frustrated
  • governed
  • hampered
  • hitched
  • impeded
  • inhibited
  • manacled
  • moderated
  • modified
  • narrowed
  • obstructed
  • prevented
  • repressed
  • stayed
  • stopped
  • suppressed
  • surrounded
  • tempered
  • held-back
  • reined in
  • small

antonyms for tethered

MOST RELEVANT
  • free
  • unbounded
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How to use tethered in a sentence

Instead of using only humans, Macy’s has built five specialty vehicles with an innovative anchor tether framework that has been extensively field-tested and approved by NYC officials.
THE MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE HAS ONE STAR THAT ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOPERIK OLSENNOVEMBER 25, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
The senses are our tethers to the world—the real world, the one we’re in right now, not the one on our screens—and it calms my mind every time I check in with them.
EVERYTHING OUR EDITORS LOVED IN OCTOBERTHE EDITORSNOVEMBER 3, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
Then, in papers published last fall, researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether.
THE MOST FAMOUS PARADOX IN PHYSICS NEARS ITS ENDGEORGE MUSSEROCTOBER 29, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The finding suggests that such tethers could also help connect once-intact forests that have been fragmented by human activities and aid conservation efforts of these and other canopy dwellers.
A ROPE BRIDGE RESTORED A HIGHWAY THROUGH THE TREES FOR ENDANGERED GIBBONSCAROLYN WILKEOCTOBER 19, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Controlled via a cloud-based dashboard, the Walmart delivery drones will hover 80 feet above customers’ yards and lower their orders down using a tether.
WALMART IS PILOTING DRONE DELIVERY IN NORTH CAROLINAVANESSA BATES RAMIREZSEPTEMBER 11, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
He gave orders for the horses to be tethered a little distance in the rear of the camp, where they would be sheltered.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
His horse was tethered below, behind another rock; and he felt positive that these men had not come upon it.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Barrington quieted his horse with soothing words, and dismounting, tethered him to a gate.
THE LIGHT THAT LURESPERCY BREBNER
He was tethered in the centre of the arena, by one of his hind legs, to a stump about twelve inches high.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREET
I call the Most High to witness—she submitted to all my demands meekly, as though she were no eaglet, but a tethered lamb!
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
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