[
UK
/tɹˈʌst/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
bound or secured closely
the guard was found trussed up with his arms and legs securely tied
a trussed chicken
How To Use trussed In A Sentence
- Meals are uncomplicated, made from fresh produce sold to the resort by local villagers: live mud crabs trussed up in vines, shiny Spanish mackerel, big juicy pineapples.
- The thieves had trussed the guard up with rope.
- In moments of passion trussed-up participants have been known to remove their adhesive bindings.
- Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged.
- Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars.
- The trussed, recumbent gendarme had been freed and carried away, still half-conscious. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- a trussed chicken
- The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks.
- She was trussed up with yellow nylon rope.
- She trussed him quickly with stolen bandage, and gagged his mouth.