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# tethered

«tethered» in Mova's school dictionary: **to tie it with a rope or chain to a post or tree, so it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (tether, tethers, tethered, tethering)

### meaning for a pupil

To tether an animal is to tie it with a rope or chain to a post or tree, so it can move only a short way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tethered/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, an animal such as a horse, goat or reindeer is tied up so that it cannot run off

### examples

- The goat was tethered to a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tethered/#x1)
- He untied the rope that tethered the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tethered/#x2)
- The reindeer stayed tethered by the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tethered/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tethered» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tethered/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.