chain up

1. 1.

   tie up with chains

   “chain up the prisoners”

   Broadertie down

Questions about chain up

What does chain up mean?

chain up means "tie up with chains".

Is chain up a common word?

chain up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.