tongue-tie

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tongue-tie (t

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Restricted mobility of the tongue resulting from abnormal shortness of the frenum.

tr.v. tongue-tied, tongue-ty·ing, tongue-ties

To make tongue-tied.

tongue-tie

(Medicine / Pathology) a congenital condition in which the tongue has restricted mobility as the result of an abnormally short frenulum

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tongue-tie - deprive of speech; "When he met his idol, the young man was tongue-tied"

deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

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