tie up

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En español: apersogar

To secure with rope, string, etc. · Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake.· The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault.
To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay. · He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now.
To complete, finish, or resolve. · I'd like to tie up the project before I leave.
To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable. · Don't tie up your capital in aging accounts.

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One of those street blockades had occurred that sometimes tie up commerce and movement quite suddenly in the big city.

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 13 · C1

The abbé began like you, and in three days you will be like him, mad enough to tie up; but, fortunately, there are dungeons here.”

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 80 · C1

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