truss
verb/trʌs/
/trʌs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they truss | /trʌs/ /trʌs/ |
| he / she / it trusses | /ˈtrʌsɪz/ /ˈtrʌsɪz/ |
| past simple trussed | /trʌst/ /trʌst/ |
| past participle trussed | /trʌst/ /trʌst/ |
| -ing form trussing | /ˈtrʌsɪŋ/ /ˈtrʌsɪŋ/ |
- truss somebody/something (up) to tie up somebody’s arms and legs so that they cannot move
- The guard had been gagged and trussed up.
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- truss something to tie the legs and wings of a chicken, etc. before it is cooked
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘bundle’): from Old French trusse (noun), trusser ‘pack up, bind in’, based on late Latin tors- ‘twisted’, from the verb torquere. Sense (2) dates from the mid 17th cent.
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