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