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tethered

[ teth-erd ]

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adjective

fastened or confined with or as if with a rope, chain, or the like to limit the range of movement:
On this field trip, students will have the opportunity to take a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon.
Too many lawmakers are partisan, inept, or too lightly tethered to reality.
Digital Technology. (of an electronic device) used to enable a wireless internet connection on another nearby device, often a laptop:
You can browse the web more securely using a tethered phone, because your information is being sent directly through the phone rather than over a public wireless hotspot.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of tether.

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tethered¹

tether ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted guide.

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Practically overnight, I had to adjust to how my new glasses slid down my nose and the way the elastics tethered to my braces snapped like rubber bands in a junk drawer.

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And unlike its conservative counterpart, it is too often tethered to party elites, hesitant to challenge institutional Democratic power, and still operating as if gatekeepers hold the same influence they did 30 years ago.

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We both agreed we no longer wanted to be tethered to America.

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Trump is tethered to extremes, his identity not solid but fluid, shifting to accommodate the desires of those who behold him.

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