"tie off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ties off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tying off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tied off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tied off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tie off (third-person singular simple present ties off, present participle tying off, simple past and past participle tied off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To close, seal, or end something by tying a knot."
      ],
      "id": "en-tie_off-en-verb-NJBWJjLb",
      "links": [
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "seal",
          "seal"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close, seal, or end something by tying a knot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To close (something) with string, thread, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-tie_off-en-verb-WBEgRSX9",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close (something) with string, thread, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 4 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 11 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections",
          "text": "She gave the Times an interview and let herself be photographed, she stroked the pastry chef’s ego, she stayed late and bagged up the spoiled meats in privacy, she fired the dishwasher who’d tied off in the john, and every lunch and every dinner she dogged the line and troubleshot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection."
      ],
      "id": "en-tie_off-en-verb-~tmhTUI0",
      "links": [
        [
          "intravenous",
          "intravenous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, intransitive) To tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tie off"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ties off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tying off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tied off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tied off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tie off (third-person singular simple present ties off, present participle tying off, simple past and past participle tied off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To close, seal, or end something by tying a knot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "seal",
          "seal"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close, seal, or end something by tying a knot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To close (something) with string, thread, etc."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close (something) with string, thread, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections",
          "text": "She gave the Times an interview and let herself be photographed, she stroked the pastry chef’s ego, she stayed late and bagged up the spoiled meats in privacy, she fired the dishwasher who’d tied off in the john, and every lunch and every dinner she dogged the line and troubleshot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intravenous",
          "intravenous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, intransitive) To tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tie off"
}