tie someone's hands (English, verb)
expansion: tie someone's hands (third-person singular simple present ties someone's hands, present participle tying someone's hands, simple past and past participle tied someone's hands)
Senses:
qualifier: often in passive voice
glosses: To render someone powerless to act, to thwart someone.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: ties someone's hands
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tying someone's hands
tags: participle
present
form: tied someone's hands
tags: participle
past
form: tied someone's hands
tags: past