tie off

present singular third person ties off · participle present tying off · participle past tied off · past tied off

1. transitiveTo close, seal, or end something by tying a knot.
2. transitiveTo close (something) with string, thread, etc.
3. informalintransitiveTo tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection.

   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.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections