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trussed

[ UK /tɹˈʌst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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