truss
verb (used with object)
to tie, bind, or fasten.
has trussed
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present perfectof truss (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Instead, he has trussed them all up by straps and cables and dangled the mobile mess, like so much tangled laundry descending on crisscrossing lines, from the ceiling of the Guggenheim’s six-story-high rotunda.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 11, 2011
"That yon traitor stole from me that songlet of the peach, and though he has trussed it out of countenance with gawds of his own invention still the root of the matter is mine."
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
