pinioned in English

verb
1
tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone).
he pinioned the limbs of his opponents
2
cut off the pinion of (a wing or bird) to prevent flight.
Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned .

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1. They were pinioned against the wall.

2. His arms were pinioned to his sides.

3. The thief was pinioned to a tree.

4. The captive's arms were pinioned to his sides.

5. Her arms were pinioned tightly behind her.

6. My arms were pinioned behind me by the policemen.

7. They were pinioned against the wall by the lorry.

8. I struggled to rise but my arms were pinioned.

9. He was held with his arms pinioned together behind his back.

10. The old woman pinioned her hen's wings together to prevent it from flying.

11. Pinioned by the press of men around them, they were unable to move.

12. He was pinioned to the wall by two men while another one repeatedly punched him.

13. He could not fight back, for his arms were pinioned to his sides with ropes.

14. With a groan, Vitor drew her up against him and pinioned her in his arms.

15. One hand on each side of her waist, he pinioned her, slid his tongue into her mouth.

16. But such rescues were the exception as time ran out for those pinioned under collapsed concrete walls and tangled girders.

17. She made contact and heard an exclamation of pain and then her arms were pinioned behind her and she was powerless.

18. 'The Case Of The Pinioned Bosoms' is the second Inspector Cullot mystery, this time with the inspector's daughter helping out with the investigation

19. Relaxing his Bowstring, he returned the arrow to the quiver and, throwing the bow about his shoulder, stepped closer to the pinioned beast

20. 15 She made contact and heard an exclamation of pain and then her arms were pinioned behind her and she was powerless.

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22. Simple past tense and past participle of bind 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis‎[1]: “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and Bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck; whilst Mrs

23. ‘Hidden away in a blind alley is a video installation by Susan Norrie.’ ‘Finally, with a magnificent sense of the dramatic, we were pinioned by headlights against a wall in a blind alley.’ ‘In contrast, for many executive function tasks, the use of goals must be inferred from performance (e.g., the number of blind alleys entered on a