[
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
- He was trussed up with those chains like a sacrifice laid out for slaughter.
- Posts and rafters were hand-sawn and planed using timber from a nearby forest and, to reduce the use of wood, rafters were trussed with steel wire.
- The lamb is then sewn up, trussed, and cooked on a spit.
- The villains have them all trussed up down by the stream.
- It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
- Here I have trussed my chicken for the first time.
- Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh.
- trussed bridges
- The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
- He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least.