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comparative more tyable · superlative most tyable
- alternativeAlternative form of tieable.
[…] tying intricate knots in every portion of them that was tyable; […]
1864, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 3411 more example
The idea is that you can tie down Gulliver with a thousand threads. But I don't think the Soviet Gulliver is quite so tyable and these threads don't strike me as being able to hold.
1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, The Soviet Union: Internal Dynamics of Foreign Policy, Present and Future: Hearings... (page 246)
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